Abstract
Seventy-eight cases of urological autopsy during the 20 years from 1963 to 1983 at the Fukuoka-Chuo National Hospital were briefly analysed.
The rate of urological autopsy was 5.5% of all 1, 422 autopsies in the Hospital. Autopsy rate varied in each year between 13% and 100%, but the real reason of this difference was not found out.
Seventy-three % of autopsy patients died from the malignant disease. Malignant lymphomas associated with hydronephrosis and pyrexia were often mistaken for primary urological diseases.
