Volume : 8, Issue : 3, March - 2019

Histopathological study of lung and liver in autopsy cases in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Jharkhand

Dr. Shaoor Nazish, Dr. Niraj Prasad, Dr. Anil Kumar Sinha, Dr. Mushtaque Ahmad Ansari

Abstract :

The advancements of medicine would not have been possible without the help of autopsies. The lungs and liver are affected by numerous infectious, inflammatory, occupational and neoplastic conditions. This is a retrospective study conducted on 38 cases of lung and 48 cases of liver received during the period of 2 years from January, 2017 to December 2018 in pathology department of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi in collaboration with Forensic medicine department. Of the 72 cases of lungs, 41.67% cases showed pneumonia, 20.83% cases showed congestion, 2.78% cases showed emphysema, 22.22% showed granulomatous lesion, 8.33% cases showed overlapping findings and 4.17% showed normal finding. Of the 86 cases of liver, 16.28% cases showed cirrhosis, 18.60% cases showed dilated and congested sinusoids, 31.40% cases showed fatty changes, 2.33% showed malignancy (metastatic adenocarcinoma), 2.33% cases showed overlapping findings and 29.06% showed normal finding.