Review of Medicolegal Autopsies in South-South Nigeria.

Background: Study of medicolegal autopsies (MLA) in an area helps to equip policy makers about the nature and pattern of preventable deaths in that area.

Objective: To review the pattern of MLA seen in a typical Nigerian population.

Methodology: The duplicate copies of the autopsy reports issued over 12 years, were retrieved and analyzed for age, sex, cause of death, autopsy diagnosis and circumstances of death.

Profile of Medicolegal Deaths in Females: An Autopsy-Based Study.

Background: The rate of female medicolegal deaths (MLD) due to homicides and road traffic accidents (RTAs) is the highest in Africa, compared to the rest of the world, though there is scanty literature locally on this subject.

Materials And Methods: The major sources of information reviewed in this study were the autopsy registers and autopsy reports of the police clinic, Benin City, Edo State, over 10 years.

Results: A total of 331 female medicolegal autopsies were performed, accounting for 21.

Study of natural causes of death in medicolegal autopsies seen in University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

Aims And Objectives: To provide a comprehensive report on the various causes of natural death in our centre and consider its implication for prevention.

Materials And Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study of post mortem reports, autopsy registers and duplicate copies of death certificates of all cases of SND on which autopsy was performed on in UBTH, Benin City, between 1990 and 2009.

Results: Of the 4481 medicolegal deaths autopsied during the period, 2734 (61.

Evaluation of diagnostic performances of visual cervical inspection with acetic acid and colposcopy in Benin city, Nigeria.

Objective: To determine the performance indicators of visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) and colposcopy to detect cervical premalignant lesions.

Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study evaluating performance indicators of visual cervical inspection with acetic acid and colposcopy using directed biopsy for histopathology as the reference standard in a Colposcopy unit at a referral tertiary hospital in Nigeria. Consecutive sample of 212 apparently healthy, ambulant, asymptomatic women with an intact uterus and with no past history of cervical neoplasia were recruited.

A 20 year retrospective analysis of medicolegal deaths in a tertiary hospital setting in Nigeria.

Objective: To determine and classify the various types of medicolegal deaths as seen at University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Benin City, Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective study of all the medicolegal deaths seen in the Department of Histopathology, (UBTH, Benin City over a 20 year period (January 1990-December 2009) as recorded in the autopsy registers of the department.

Result: A total of 5035 autopsies were done during the period, 89% of which were coroner cases.