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*Sudden Unexpected Death in [[Epilepsy]] ([[SUDEP]])<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1187111-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1187111-overview]. Accessed on: 11 October 2010.</ref> - missing history.
*Sudden Unexpected Death in [[Epilepsy]] ([[SUDEP]])<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1187111-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1187111-overview]. Accessed on: 11 October 2010.</ref> - missing history.
*[[Sudden infant death syndrome]].
*[[Sudden infant death syndrome]].
===Histology checklist===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Section/organ
! Elements
|-
| Bone marrow
|
*trilineage hematopoiesis
*infection
*tumour
|-
| Coronary arteries
|
*percent stenosis for major arteries (LMCA, LAD, LCx, RCA)
*plaque rupture
*thrombi
*inflammation
|-
| Heart muscle
|
*hemorrhage
*necrosis (coagulative/contraction band)
*inflammatory infiltrate (necrosis versus not)
*nuclear enlargement
*hyaline material (amyloid)
|-
| Adrenal gland
|
*tumour
**primary (cortex/medulla)
**metastatic
*hemorrhage
*fat
|-
| Kidney
|
*tumour
*glomeruli (enlargement, cresents, mesangial expansion, inflammation - esp. PMNs)
*vessels (atherosclerosis, arteriolar hyalinization, thrombi)
*interstitial (fibrosis, inflammation)
*tubules (regeneration, casts, inflammation)
|-
| Liver
|
*tumour
*fibrosis (septa, rounded contours, cirrhosis), inflammation (cell type, location (portal, interface, lobular))
*steatosis (local/type)
*bile ducts
*ballooning cells (steatohepatitis)/feathery degeneration (cholestasis)
|-
| Spleen
|
*white pulp
*red pulp
*surface abnormalities
|-
| Gastrointestinal tract
|
*tumour
*vessels
*inflammation - esp. PMNs
*fibrosis
|-
| Thyroid gland
|
*tumour
*inflammation
|}


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