Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury related deaths[1]. The autopsy diagnosis of drowning is one of the
major problems in forensic medicine, especially when there is delay in recovering the
corpse[2]. The main limit in the diagnosis of drowning is that even if a body is recovered
from sea water, it may not have drowned and the proof that death was due to drowning
may constitute a difficult problem to solve in forensic medicine. Due to the admitted limits
of autopsy-based studies in the diagnosis of drowning, virtopsy is considered the new
imaging horizon in these post-mortem studies[3-6]. The aim of our study was to evaluate
the role of virtopsy performed through CT in forensic diagnosis of drowning
