Negative or obscure autopsy is important in cases where no significant finding are discovered in autopsy
•When in a postmortem examination all efforts means macro/gross, microscopic chemical and toxicological result couldn’t be concluding enough into cause ,manner or other required medico-legal aspect of death then the obscure or negative autopsy work for logical conclusion.
•Negative autopsy is very useful in cases where there is no adequate history of death.
•Death from fear/fright or shock/Cases of post fracture air embolism.
•Death due to lesion in neck as diphtheria, laryngeal bronchitis/swelling of glottis or choking on food.
•Cases like brown atrophy of heart associated with starvation, asthma or cancer.
•Sickle cell disease/Lesion of adrenal gland/hemorrhage or destruction by tumor.
•The negative autopsy is also very informative as witnessed by me in death due to distal coronary artery occlusion or coronary artery spasm.
(Contributed by Dr Sudhir Gupta)
•When in a postmortem examination all efforts means macro/gross, microscopic chemical and toxicological result couldn’t be concluding enough into cause ,manner or other required medico-legal aspect of death then the obscure or negative autopsy work for logical conclusion.
•Negative autopsy is very useful in cases where there is no adequate history of death.
•Death from fear/fright or shock/Cases of post fracture air embolism.
•Death due to lesion in neck as diphtheria, laryngeal bronchitis/swelling of glottis or choking on food.
•Cases like brown atrophy of heart associated with starvation, asthma or cancer.
•Sickle cell disease/Lesion of adrenal gland/hemorrhage or destruction by tumor.
•The negative autopsy is also very informative as witnessed by me in death due to distal coronary artery occlusion or coronary artery spasm.
(Contributed by Dr Sudhir Gupta)
Hello Dr.,
ReplyDeleteThanks for these curious insights in Medico legal Advices for postmortem related issue.
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