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Cytology

Autopsy

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Method of Morgagni: It is the classic or primitive procedure. This author in 1761 gathered the experience of the primitive eras and accomplished the autopsies with a systematized method, but without extraction.

Method of Rokitansky (1842): This author, founding of the school came of pathological anatomy, described the first orderly and complete method of autopsies, in which the fundamental were the examination and dissection in situ of the viscera. Rokitansky's _Handbook_ appeared in 1842

Method of Gohn (1890): He Modified the technique of Rokitansky introducing the output of the cadaveric organs forming blocks.

Method of Letulle (1900): He makes a great oval incision oval in the thoracic cavity and abdomen to obtain a wide vision of the set of viscera of these cavities; the output of the viscera was making it in bulk performing their examination out the corpse. The teacher of Paris, Thoinot, perfected this method.

Method of Virchow (1893): The main feature that characterizes to this method is the global recognition of the viscera in situ and their analysis separately, once extracted from the corpse, describing in detail a study technique for each one. Semmelweis 1818-1865 and Rokitansky 1804-1878.