1 online resource (xiv, 187 pages) : color illustrations
Contents
External evidence of open-heart surgery -- Exposing the cardiopulmonary block -- The postmortem coronary injection -- The cardiac dissection -- Putting it all together -- Congenital heart disease and surgical footprints -- A matter of mindset
Summary
Addresses the need of pathologists in practice and, especially, in training to achieve a fresh level of competence in dealing, at the time of autopsy, with the anatomic complexity of a heart that has undergone previous surgical treatment, whether that treatment occurred in the recent or remote past
