Post mortem core needle biopsy of Covid-19 fatalities

Category Primary study
JournalRevista Española de Patología
Year 2021
The difficulties involved in performing autopsies of patients who had died due to COVID-19 required the use of alternative methods in order to obtain tissue samples of affected organs We describe the technique of core needle aspiration, without ultrasonographic guidance, which we used in 19 cadavers and which produced a high yield in lungs, heart (> 94%) and liver (> 89%), thus enabling the study of the morphological changes produced by SARS-CoV-2 © 2020 Sociedad Espanola de Anatomia Patologica
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First added on: Apr 02, 2021