TITLE(S): Assistant Professor of Pathology

BOARD CERTIFICATION: Anatomic and Clinical Pathology; Pediatric Pathology

Perinatal autopsy (stillborn fetuses and neonates), including photographic and radiologic documentation, microbiological cultures, routine microscopy, and electron microscopy, metabolic screen, molecular studies, immunohistochemistry, etc., if needed.

Placental examination: gross, microscopic and special studies (microbiology, immunohistochemistry, etc., if needed).

Maternal serum and amniotic fluid screening for fetal genetic diseases (alpha-fetoprotein for open neural tube defects, triple screen for trisomies).

Valid autopsy permit
 
 
 
 

Surgical pathology request form.

Serum or amniotic fluid sample. 
 
 

Perinatal autopsy

Surgical pathological examination of placenta or previable fetus

Prenatal screen

30 days

24-48 hours

24 hours

Telephone: 513/558-4500

Email: stanekjw@email.uc.edu

Fax: 513/558-2954

Letter: 231 Bethesda Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45267-0529 

 Dr. Jerzy Stanek is an experienced perinatal pathologist, gynecologist/obstetrician and reproductive endocrinologist. He is an author or co-author of 47 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, two perinatal textbooks, and 60 other professional medical publications.

Stanek J, Willett GD, Lage JM. Idiopathic hydropericardium as a cause of death of a preterm neonate. Pediatr Pathol 13:1-9, 1993.

Wang G, Bove KE, Stanek J. Pathological evidence of prolonged umbilical cord encirclement as a cause of fetal death. Am J Perinatol 15:585-588, 1998.

Shah M, Stanek J, Handwerger S. Differential localization of heat shock proteins 90, 70, 60 and 27 in human decidua and placenta during pregnacy. Histochem J 30:509-518, 1998.

Flitman HP, Stanek J, Hsu H, de Courten-Myers G. Anomalous ependyma inducing split cord and meningomyelocele? J Child Neurol 14:473-477, 1999.

Mutema J, Stanek J. Numerical criteria for the diagnosis of placental chorangiosis using CD34 immunostaining. Trophoblast Res 13:443-452, 1999.