Paulo Savoia, Marcio Valente Yamada Sawamura, Renata Aparecida de Almeida Monteiro, Amaro Nunes Duarte-Neto, Maria da Graça Morais Martin, Marisa Dolhnikoff, Thais Mauad, Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, Claudia da Costa Leite, Luiz Fernando Ferraz da Silva, Ellison Fernando Cardoso
OBJECTIVES: Performing autopsies in a pandemic scenario is challenging, as the need to understand pathophysiology must be balanced with the contamination risk. A minimally invasive autopsy might be a solution. We present a model that combines radiology and pathology to evaluate postmortem CT lung findings and their correlation with histopathology. METHODS: Twenty-nine patients with fatal COVID-19 underwent postmortem chest CT, and multiple lung tissue samples were collected...
June 2024: European Journal of Radiology Open