Dr. Cyril Harrison Wecht M.D.
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
1119 Penn Avenue Suite 404 Pittsburgh PA, 15222About
Dr. Cyril Wecht is a pathologist practicing in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Wecht is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Wecht can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Wecht may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
University of Pittsburgh / Main Campus 1956
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 1956
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Diagnostic tests--a source of potential malpractice lawsuits.
- Autopsy rates and diagnosis.
- The right to die and physician-assisted suicide: medical, legal, and ethical aspects (Part II).
- Shaken baby syndrome.
- Editorial: The medical malpractice crisis.
- A comparison of two abortion-related legal inquiries.
- Medical, legal, and moral considerations in human experiments involving minors and incompetent adults.
- Conflagration in an ambulance oxygen system.
- Simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome: a proposed definition and worldwide review of cases.
- Simultaneous sudden infant death syndrome: a case report.
- Clinical cause of death and autopsy results.
- Medicolegal problems in determining cause of death in motor vehicle accidents.
- The interfaces of law and medicine.
- Medicolegal problems in determining cause of death in motor vehicle accidents.
- Kawasaki disease: a review of pathologic features of stage IV disease and two cases of sudden death among asymptotic young adults.
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