Who Is at Risk for Diagnostic Discrepancies? Comparison of Pre- and Postmortal Diagnoses in 1800 Patients of 3 Medical Decades in East and West Berlin

• Daniel Wittschieber,

  Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Frederick Klauschen,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Anna-Christin Kimmritz,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Moritz von Winterfeld,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Carsten Kamphues,

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Hans-Joachim Scholman,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Andreas Erbersdobler,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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• Heidi Pfeiffer,

  Affiliation Institute of Legal Medicine, University Hospital Münster, Münster, Germany

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• Carsten Denkert,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Manfred Dietel,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Wilko Weichert,

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Jan Budczies ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Budczies, Albrecht Stenzinger

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany

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• Albrecht Stenzinger

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan Budczies, Albrecht Stenzinger

  * E-mail: albrecht.stenzinger@med.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliations Institute of Pathology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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