Topic summary
Autopsies
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Autopsy.
Autopsies may be performed for legal, medical, educational, or research purposes. Forensic autopsies are used to establish the cause and manner of death and may also help identify the deceased, while clinical autopsies investigate disease and clarify or confirm diagnoses made before death. Academic autopsies are conducted for anatomical study, and some examinations use medical imaging rather than dissection.