The potential of postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) for specimen collection under infection control risk conditions has been demonstrated, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Especially for highly contagious infectious diseases where autopsies are not feasible or only partially possible, this method will continue to be an important alternative to conventional tissue sampling in the future. In a workshop hosted by the NATON methods platform, ultrasound expert Prof. Dr. Konrad Stock (Klinikum rechts der Isar at the Technical University of Munich) trained a team from the Institute of Legal Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the Bernhard-Noch-Institute for Tropical Medicine in the MITS technique.
