ABSTRACT
The dissection techniques used in adult forensic autopsies, or medicolegal autopsies, do not differ significantly from those used in hospital autopsies. In both instances a regional technique is used to gather the evidence necessary to reach the correct anatomical-pathological diagnosis. However, when performing a forensic autopsy, it helps to also gather evidence that may later be of legal importance at trial. To this end, some specific requirements of the hospital autopsy may need modification to provide the answers needed by the courts. It is understood that other approaches than those described here may prove equally effective, provided they address the same basic issues outlined here.
