Medicolegal Autopsy Dissection Techniques

This is a practical guide to autopsy for postgraduate students in forensic medicine and the medical officers who are doing majority of postmortem work in the field at district level civil hospitals. It is intended to deliver extensive knowledge in a concise and easy-tounderstand format by balancing text, algorithms, flowcharts, and images.

Salient Features

The book
• Provides a comprehensive view of the medicolegal autopsy dissection techniques
• Aims to serve as an ideal handbook for medical officers and postgraduate students conducting postmortem examination
• Can also be used by interested undergraduate medical students with interest in postmortem examination
• Is written in a clear, concise and systematic manner for better understanding of the subject in an easier way
• Gives a quick review algorithm-based concept for simplifying the techniques of autopsy, presented through flowcharts
• Provides a step-by-step approach to dissect each and every cavity and organ of the body
• Contains more than 92 color photographs to make the reader understand postmortem dissection in a lucid manner