Institute of Forensic Medicine
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Autopsy
•Anatomical autopsy
•Pathological autopsy
•Forensic autopsy - for medical doctors - for Police

Autopsies obligated in the Czech republic
•Children
•Women die by parturition or abortion
•Implanted objects (pacemaker etc.)
•Bodies after transplantation (donors)
•Sudden death from unknown causes
•All deaths after trauma (violent deaths)
•Prisoners
•Suspicious medical malpractice

Special examples of autopsies
•Sudden and unexpected death (from natural causes)
•Unnatural death = violent death
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–Exhumation
–Putrefied bodies
–Firearms wounds
–Identification
–Etc…
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Laboratories for forensic medicine examinations
•Histology
•Serology
•Toxicology
•Genetics
•Anthropology
•Photography