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VARGAS SANABRIA, Maikel  y  RODRIGUEZ MENA, Denisse. Importancia del estudio histopatológico en la determinación de las causas de defunción de autopsias médico legales cuya manera de muerte se clasificó como natural. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.1, pp.05-23. ISSN 2215-5287.

In this paper it is discussed the need to realice histopathologics studies to explain the final diagnosis in the autopsies of the cases that have been catalogued as natural death. The histology is a tool that helps to confirm or refute the macrocospic findings therefore his usefulness has been demonstrated in the cases in which the mechanism of death is not clear. All the protocols of autopsy during the year 2011 classified as natural death were studied to confirm or to reject the diagnosis before annotated like responsible for the death, being obtained that only the 42,62 % coincides completely, macrocospic and microscopically. For what it continues being the recommendation, to do the histopathologyc studies to all of the natural deaths, while the human and material resources allow it.

Palabras clave : Histopathology Natural death Autopsy Microscopic diagnosis.

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