Original research paper comparative study of hepatic injury and its different aspects in medicolegal autopsies.

ABSTRACT

Liver being an important and highly vascular organ, hepatic injury causes huge blood loss from the body for which the condition of victims becomes grave. So it is important to know which type if force or trauma causes which type of injury and also its extent to the liver. This paper deals with different types of injuries to the liver following trauma of different origin. In case of unnatural death resulting from trauma there are many authors who worked with injuries over different part of the body but a few of them has highlighted over hepatic injuries. That is why we liked to give our attention over hepatic injury. In present study we have dealt with 100 dead bodies with mechanical injuries in Calcutta Police Morgue under Medical College Calcutta during June 2008 to December 2009. This paper can also assist the care givers of the victim with the knowledge of the golden hour of management and also to find out the site of primary injury over liver.