Journal and Conferences of Dentistry

Liver diseases and cirrhosis contribute to 23.59% of mortality in world and ranks 27th as major cause of death in world and it is 2.74% of all the causes of death in India but still the exact prevalence of cirrhosis is not known because the disease is often silent so 30% to 40% of cases are discovered at autopsy, indicating that in substantial proportion of people, the disease goes undetected during life. There are various etiologies if cirrhosis and all these causes leave specific imprints upon the liver so as to be identified histologically. Due to varied etiologies  like alcohol which being the commonest, obesity diabetes , hepatitis B, C, all these don’t offer any frontline diagnostic tool nor any treatment modalities to  cirrhosis. Histology only remains a full proof diagnostic tool by which one can hope to identify various causes so quite right fully liver is called as “the custodian of milleu interior”, therefore autopsy study is a need of an hour. I our study we f...