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Features of Opening the Skull and Extracting the Brain from the Skull

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Further morphological diagnosis of brain lesions depends on qualitative opening of the skull and qualitative extraction of the brain from the skull. The problem is that the brain of fetuses and newborns, especially deeply premature babies, consists mainly of water (88–91%), is very fragile, is easily damaged in any contact with hard objects, and requires a very careful attitude. The author describes a method of extracting the brain without touching it with the fingers or tools. Only such an approach can ensure the full detection of all possible brain lesions.

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  1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Kirov Military Medical Academy, Saint Petersburg, Russia

    Vasily Vasilievich Vlasyuk

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Vlasyuk, V.V. (2019). Features of Opening the Skull and Extracting the Brain from the Skull. In: Birth Trauma and Perinatal Brain Damage. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93441-9_13

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