ANALYSIS OF THE PATHOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS OF 1375 AUTOPSIES / 西安交通大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

1375 cases of autopsy in our university from 1950～1989 were analysed in this paper. The results showed that the consistency between clinical and pathological diagnosis reached 79.3%. The clinical misdiagnosis were found to be 20.7%. The statistcal figures indicated that the infectious diseases occupied a dominant position in 1950s, while malignant tumors and cardiovascular diseases have become the major diseases in 1980s. Reasons of the lowering down of autopsy rate and clinical misdiagnoses are discussed. It demonstrates that autopsy is still of extreme importance in investigations of modern medical sciences.