Diagnostic utility of autopsy in a university hospital in Iran.

Objective: The objective of this study were to evaluate the diagnostic utility of the autopsy in University hospital in Tehran, Iran.

Methods: In this retrospective descriptive-analytic survey during a six years period from 1998 to 2003, autopsies in the Bahrami Children Hospital, a teriary care hospital in Tehran, were studied. The clinical and autopsy diagnoses were compared and categorized as follows: 1.