This was one of the earliest examples of a postmortem autopsy, through which he discovered that Galen was incorrect regarding the formation of the bones of the lower jaw and sacrum.

It was unclear how the Sultan got hold of scissors in his tower prison cell and how he managed to cut two wrists at once, since no autopsy was allowed afterwards.

But for some 16 intervening centuries of ongoing anatomical study, CSF remains unmentioned in the literature, perhaps because of the prevailing autopsy technique, which involved cutting off the head, thereby removing evidence of the CSF before the brain was examined.

The initial autopsy report describes the drug as Carbamazepine, and that dosage was found to be at sub-therapeutic level.

There was also evidence that he had experienced a heart attack, but an autopsy did not conclusively determine the cause of death.

In accordance with his wishes, an autopsy was performed.

The cause of his death was attributed to cocaine leading to heart failure, according to the autopsy report.

The police claimed his death was the result of an extended hunger strike, but an autopsy revealed multiple bruises and abrasions and that he ultimately succumbed to a brain hemorrhage from the massive injuries to the head, which many saw as strong evidence that he had been brutally clubbed by his captors.

Though Vesalius ' work was not the first such work based on actual autopsy, nor even the first work of this era, the production values, highly detailed and intricate plates, and the fact that the artists who produced it were clearly present at the dissections themselves made it into an instant classic.

It appears the story was spread by Hubert Languet, who served as de Saxe under Emperor Charles V and then under the Prince of Orange, who claimed in 1565 that Vesalius was performing an autopsy on an aristocrat in Spain when it was found that the heart was still beating, leading to the Inquisition condemning him to death.

An autopsy determined that he was shot in the mouth and no other wounds were found on his body.

William J. Burns immediately took Smith's body away and there was no autopsy.

There was no visible external injury ; however, according to autopsy reports, his brain had swollen considerably, from 1, 400 to 1, 575 grams ( a 13 % increase ).

The only substance found during the autopsy was Equagesic.

At autopsy, a lesion was also found in the same region of lateral frontal lobe as in Leborgne.

In late 2002, following investigations by her daughter Bettina, it was discovered that Meinhof's brain had been retained ( apparently without permission ) following the autopsy performed as part of the investigation into Meinhof's death.

An autopsy reveals that Alys ' death was caused by an experimental reality-warping drug called KR-3.

An autopsy determined that the cause of death was a 90-percent blockage in two coronary arteries.

Next day an autopsy was conducted by Pelletan at which it was stated that a child apparently about ten years of age, " which the commissioners told us was the late Louis Capet's son ", had died of a scrofulous infection of long standing.

Though Mary claimed that Sonny's drug use caused the accident, the autopsy performed by the Douglas County Coroner showed no indication of any substances or alcohol.

Cook County Medical Examiner Robert J. Stein performed an autopsy on Washington and concluded that Washington had died of a heart attack.

The autopsy is performed by the pathologist at the request of a coroner usually during the investigation of criminal law cases and civil law cases in some jurisdictions.

In 2007, Richardson's son had his father's body exhumed and an autopsy performed to verify the original finding.

The autopsy is performed by a coroner or medical examiner usually during the investigation of criminal law cases and civil law cases in some jurisdictions.

An autopsy was performed in compliance with California law that required post-mortem examination on anyone who had not received medical treatment within 40 days of death ( despite her stroke, Rogers never saw a doctor or went to a hospital ) and concluded that the cause of death was actually a heart attack.

After Sun Weishi died following seven months of torture in a secret prison ( at Jiang's direction ), Jiang made sure that Sun's body was cremated and disposed of so that no autopsy could be performed, and so that Sun's family could not have her ashes.

In January 2007, Jay requested that his father's body be exhumed and an autopsy be performed to settle the rumors that a gun was fired or that Richardson initially survived the crash.

An autopsy conducted upon the body of Charles Whitman — approved by his father — was performed at the Cook Funeral Home on August 2.

When Leborgne died just a few days later, Broca performed an autopsy.

The autopsy was performed the next day by Golay, who discovered that the weapon, which had not yet been found, had penetrated into Elisabeth's thorax, fractured the fourth rib, pierced the lung and pericardium, and penetrated the heart from the top before coming out the base of the left ventricle.

Treves, who performed an autopsy on the body, said that Merrick had died of a dislocated neck.

Dr. Ivan Malinin performed the autopsy at the Tyree Funeral House.

His friends at the university initially had tried to prevent an autopsy on Ishi's body since the body was to be kept intact according to Yahi tradition, but the doctors at the University of California medical school performed one before Waterman was able to stop it.

Image: Tuskegee-syphilis-study autopsy-request. gif | Document from Tuskegee Syphilis Study, requesting that after test subjects die, an autopsy be performed, and the results sent to the National Institutes of Health

Lee's body was flown to Jacksonville, North Carolina, where an autopsy was performed.

A UN forensic team found fifteen recently deceased bodies in a six-yard trial trench dug at a grave site and performed an autopsy on three of them, concluding that they had been the victims of homicide, the cause of death being consistent with suffocation, as described by the eyewitness reports featured in Doran's film.

The causes of a large percentage of human stillbirths remain unknown, even in cases where extensive testing and autopsy have been performed.

Interestingly, an autopsy performed on Cushing revealed that his brain harbored a colloid cyst of the third ventricle.

Two physicians who had been present at his death were ordered to make a report, and performed an autopsy, the account of which survives in The National Archives:

As per request of the family no autopsy was performed.

The family decided to have a second autopsy performed. The 1953 medical report done immediately after Dr. Olson ’ s death indicated that there were cuts and abrasions on the body.