Forensic Identification of Papillary Adenocarcinoma of the Lung in A Developing Community

Much importance is attached to the autopsy in its relation to forensic medicine [1]. An exposition of this theme came from Finland [2] with reference to recognizing the hidden role of malignancy. Therefore, this paper presents an autopsy that exposed a special histological type of lung cancer among the Igbo ethnic group [3]. Hitherto, the concept of lung cancer was its being a disease of Western Society rather than of a developing country like Nigeria [4].