[Procedural directions for a perinatal necropsy protocol usable for data bank purposes].

Abstract

The authors expose the problems to be solved preliminarily in order to obtain a perfect standardization of autoptic protocols concerning perinatal subjects. Therefore the propose a draft of detailed anamnestic clinical card that follows the woman and the conception product during and after the pregnancy, and suggest the ways for an adequate perinatal diagnostic autoptic protocol. They deem advisable to insert the anamnestic clinical summary, codified with the SNO-MED, in an autoptic data bank, an irreplaceable instrument of interdisciplinary study.