Abstract
The liver is vulnerable to a wide variety of metabolic, toxic, microbial, and circulatory insults. Most of the chronic liver diseases, even in advanced stages, may cause no prominent clinical signs or symptoms. Autopsy remains one of the most useful tools to validate the clinical diagnosis. A total of 152 consecutive medico-legal autopsy cases were included in the present study, among which 107 cases were males, and 45 were females. Age groups involved in the study were from the third decade to the eighth decade. Out of the 107 cases among the males, 32.89% were of normal histology, 32.29% were steatosis, 13.16% were chronic venous congestion liver, 11.89% were due to steatohepatitis, 2.63% were cirrhosis, 5.27% showed features of chronic hepatitis and 1.97% showed features of hepatocellular carcinoma. Out of the 45 female cases, 18% were of normal histology, 15% were steatosis, 11.1% were steato-hepatitis, 8.9% showed features of chronic venous congestion, and 6.7% showed features of chronic hepatitis. There was no case of cirrhosis and cancer among females.
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