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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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