Pathological findings in liver autopsy

Liver is the site of many diseases, many of which become symptomatic while some are diagnosed only on autopsy. Involvement of liver is secondary to cardiac, metabolic and social problems like alcoholism. In this autopsy study of one hundred cases of liver specimens, fatty change, venous congestion, cirrhosis of liver, malignancy, hepatitis and chronic abscess are reported; fatty change being the predominant finding.