Riaz Qadeer, Rizwan-ul Haq, Anwar-ul Haq.
Prevalence of Negative Autopsy in Peshawar, KPK.
Ophthalmol Update Jan ;14(1):79-81.

Background: One of the aims of medico legal autopsy is to find out mode, manner and cause of death in any sudden suspicious death .The present study is about unnatural deaths in which after autopsy no definite cause of death was determined and it was difficult to comment whether death is natural or unnatural. Place of Study: Study was conducted in the department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology of Khyber Medical college, Peshawar. Methodology: This descriptive study consist of total 400 autopsies performed on all referred cases from the police station of rural as well as urban areas of Peshawar district during the period from 1st January 2013 to 23rd May 2013. Results: It was found out from the results that in 16 out of 400 autopsies performed (4% cases) the cause of death was not determined.

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