Any good suggestions for books that address autopsy gross removal of organs?

[PathologyRocks]

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Hello,

I would like to ask whether any of you are familiar with a book on autopsy that explains the removal of organs and basic autopsy procedure in detail. I have not yet been able to find a book like that. I have autopsy a month from now and would like to have that resource available now.

-P

 

[KeratinPearls]

Hello,

I would like to ask whether any of you are familiar with a book on autopsy that explains the removal of organs and basic autopsy procedure in detail. I have not yet been able to find a book like that. I have autopsy a month from now and would like to have that resource available now.

-P

There is an autopsy dissection manual (I dont remember it offhand), but learning is really hands on just like when you are surg path.

 

[Ruination]

experience doing autopsies the best and only way of learning how to do a post. there should be a senior resident or attending who should help you with the first. no one expects you to be able to eviscerate and have everything looked at in 45 minutes yet.

 

[mlw03]

Rokitansky or Virchow method?

 

[pathomatic]

An Introduction to Autopsy
Technique 2nd Edition, (2005)
http://www.cap.org/apps/cap.portal?...nload.html&_state=maximized&_pageLabel=cntvwr

 

[deleted314957]

Hello,

I would like to ask whether any of you are familiar with a book on autopsy that explains the removal of organs and basic autopsy procedure in detail. I have not yet been able to find a book like that. I have autopsy a month from now and would like to have that resource available now.

-P

this came up in a thread a couple years ago.
Post-Mortem examination-Specific methods and procedures. author-Roger Baker, 1967 W.B.Saunders.
i am sure it is out of print but amazon may have one. it is strictly a how-to manual really directed strictly at the dissection procedures for the autopsy. it really assumes no medical knowledge and could be considered a "diener bible". i got it for my 16th b-day. (i've been interested in path for a LONG time!). it is like a fetal pig dissection manual for people.

 

[KCShaw]

The previously mentioned autopsy technique materials from CAP (one short paperback, one very short laminated spiral bound with the main diagrams) are probably the simplest and easiest to obtain for some basic techniques. However, I quite agree that seeing and doing firsthand is really the only way to learn it. And as the occasionally eccentric pathologist from my first year in residency liked to say, TIMTOWTDI (There Is More Than One Way To Do It) -- which starts down the trail of the Rokitansky vs Virchow methods, etc. This basically means that whoever teaches you is probably going to do it a little different from any given text or series of diagrams, and you'll probably be better off learning how to do it their way before gallavanting off trying other things.

With that said, if you're going to spend time/money on a text, personally I suggest getting one which also has some tables of normal weights & measurements, such as Finkbeiner's or Ludwig's books or something similar. They also contain some technique sections, though not always as concise or easy to understand as the pure technique books.