After all the above procedures are performed, the body is now an empty shell, with no larynx, chest organs, abdominal organs, pelvic organs, or brain. The front of the rib cage is also missing. The scalp is pulled down over the face, and the whole top of the head is gone.

If the corpse has to stand in public view, the diener has to repare the damages. In many institutions, the sliced organs are just poured back into the open body cavity. In other places, the organs are not replaced but just incinerated at the facility.
If the organs had not been put back in the body, the whole trunk appears collapsed, especially the chest (since the chest plate was not firmly reattached to the ribs). The mortician must then remedy this by placing filler in the body cavity to re-expand the body to roughly normal contours.

In either case, the breastbone and ribs are replaced in the body and the skull and trunk incisions are sewed shut with baseball stitches from behind the ears over the back of the skull, so that when the head rests on a pillow in the casket, the wound is not visible.

Then, the diener rinses the body off with a hose and sponge, covers it with a sheet, and call the funeral home for pick- up or bring the corpse back to the fridge if further examination is required. For some odd reason, many prosectors report increased appetite after an autopsy, so the first thing they want to do afterwards is grab something to eat.

Days to weeks later, the processed microscopic slides are examined by the attending pathologist, who renders the final diagnoses and dictates the report. Only the pathologist can formally issue the report, even if he or she was not the prosector. The report is of variable length but almost always runs at least three pages. It may be illustrated with diagrams that the prosector draws from scratch or fills in on standard forms with anatomical drawings.