Information provided by postmortem radiology
| • Gestational age assessment |
| • Skeletal malformation |
| (a) dysplasia |
| (b) dysostoses (eg defects of limbs, ribs, vertebrae) |
| • Skeletal trauma (birth, other) |
| • Other bone disease (eg infection, metabolic bone disease of prematurity) |
| • Extraskeletal mineralisation, for example |
| ‐ Inspissated intestinal contents (secondary to obstruction) |
| ‐ Hepatic calcification (hypoxia, infection, etc) |
| ‐ Meconium peritonitis |
| ‐ Idiopathic arterial calcification of infancy |
| • Abnormal gas accumulations, for example |
| ‐ Body cavities |
| ‐ Pulmonary interstitial emphysema |
| ‐ Surgical emphysema |
| ‐ Intravascular |
| ‐ Necrotising enterocolitis |
| • Positioning of cannulae, drains, etc |
| • Additional information from contrast radiography |
| • Definitive record of skeletal morphology |