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Histologic examination of the heart is often as important as gross examination in forensic autopsies for identifying the many varied diagnostic features of cardiac disease.
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May enhance cardiac disease detection in forensic autopsies; extends histologic summaries but leaves open prospective validation.
Histologic examination of the myocardium, valves, and cardiac blood vessels is often as important as the gross examination. The diagnostic features and categories of heart disease are many and varied, possibly more than any other organ. We present a review of the histologic features of forensically important heart disease.
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Duncanson et al. (2018) studied this question. Histologic examination of the heart is often as important as gross examination in forensic autopsies for identifying the many varied diagnostic features of cardiac disease.
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