Incidental Findings of Pathological Lesions of Adrenal Gland from Routine Autopsy of Medicolegal Cases
Journal Title: International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: Asymptomatic adrenal pathology may be overlooked in routine autopsy examination unless the clinicopathological correlation is urgently needed (pathological autopsy).This research has further included the possible role of adrenal in a death due to apparently unknown etiology. Study aimed to find out the occurrence of various pathological lesions of adrenal, to classify the pathological lesions into benign and malignant and to find out the gross and histopathological change of adrenal in stressful condition (like accident, hanging, burn etc). Material and methods: Observational, descriptive, cross sectional study was done in the department of Pathology, R. G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata and the department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata abd time frame of 12 month (1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014). Sample size was 106. Inclusion Criteria were cases of all accidental death and cases of all death due to unknown cause. Result: We found cases of adrenal cortical nodule, lymphocyte infiltrate, cortical adenoma and myelolipoma respectively 22.64%, 16.03%, 3.77%, 1.88% and 0.94%. Conclution: This study emphasizes the importance of forensic autopsies for epidemiological and clinical analysis. Adrenal cortical lymphocytic infiltrate may be associated with autoimmune adrenalitis. Cortical adenoma, nodule may be associated with essential hypertension in old age.
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Kuntal Roy, Tushar Kanti Das, Somnath Das, Manisha Sarkar
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