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Practice Guideline
. 2020 Jun;112(2):64-77.
doi: 10.32074/1591-951X-13-20. Epub 2020 Mar 26.

Management of the corpse with suspect, probable or confirmed COVID-19 respiratory infection - Italian interim recommendations for personnel potentially exposed to material from corpses, including body fluids, in morgue structures and during autopsy practice

Vittorio Fineschi  1 , Anna Aprile  2 , Isabella Aquila  3 , Mauro Arcangeli  4 , Alessio Asmundo  5 , Mauro Bacci  6 , Mariano Cingolani  7 , Luigi Cipolloni  8 , Stefano D'Errico  9 , Ilaria De Casamassimi  1 , Giulio Di Mizio  3 , Marco Di Paolo  10 , Martina Focardi  11 , Paola Frati  1 , Mario Gabbrielli  12 , Raffaele La Russa  1 , Aniello Maiese  10 , Federico Manetti  1 , Massimo Martelloni  13 , Elena Mazzeo  14 , Angelo Montana  15 , Margherita Neri  16 , Martina Padovano  1 , Vilma Pinchi  17 , Cristoforo Pomara  15 , Pietrantonio Ricci  3 , Monica Salerno  15 , Alessandro Santurro  1 , Matteo Scopetti  1 , Roberto Testi  18 , Emanuela Turillazzi  10 , Giuseppe Vacchiano  19 ; Scientific Society of Hospital Legal Medicine of the National Health System (COMLAS); Filippo Crivelli  20 , Emanuela Bonoldi  21 , Fabio Facchetti  22 , Manuela Nebuloni  23 , Anna Sapino  24   25 ; Italian Society of Anatomical Pathology and Cytology (SIAPEC)
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Management of the corpse with suspect, probable or confirmed COVID-19 respiratory infection - Italian interim recommendations for personnel potentially exposed to material from corpses, including body fluids, in morgue structures and during autopsy practice

Vittorio Fineschi et al. Pathologica. 2020 Jun.
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Diagnostic algorithm for medico-legal autopsies.
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Diagnostic algorithm for hospitalized patients who died and with clinical and imaging evaluation.
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