Value of autopsy | Number of patients (%) |
Cause of death different from the one on the death certificate | 2 (12.5) |
Additional diagnoses/findings of clinical and/or academic interest | 5 (31) |
Retrieval of pathological tissue for storage in our tissue bank | 5 (31)* |
Donation of retained organs for medical education/research | 7 (44) |
↵* All patients who had affected lymph nodes or lymphomatous masses at the time of death.