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G160 Guidelines on autopsy practice: Fetal autopsy following antepartum or intrapartum death of non-malformed fetuses (RCPath)
This document replaces the 1st edition of the Guidelines on autopsy practice: Third trimester antepartum and intrapartum stillbirth, published in June 2017.
This guideline is a review of G160 Guidelines on autopsy practice: Third trimester antepartum and intrapartum stillbirth.
The most important change to the previous perinatal autopsy guidelines is that previous guidelines titled G160 Guidelines on autopsy practice: Third trimester antepartum and intrapartum stillbirth and G161 Guidelines on autopsy practice: Fetal autopsy (2nd trimester fetal loss and termination of pregnancy for congenital anomaly) were based on gestational age and addressed the autopsy of both malformed and non-malformed fetuses, including termination of pregnancy for developmental abnormality.
During the review of the fetal autopsy series, 3 guidelines were developed to cover perinatal post mortems. The new guideline addresses the malformed fetuses of any gestational age with particular focus on the new diagnostic modalities.