Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Medical Sciences and Medicine 2327-6657 2 5 2014 10 14 Incidental Asymptomatic Diaphragmatic Hernia in An Adult At Postmortem: - A Report of A Case and Literature Review 96 98 EN BA Ojo Department of Histopathology, College of Health Sciences, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria JA Ngbea H Mohammed BA Ekeh VI Ugwu B Otene J Nyaga EO Umobong P Abayol AJMSM2014253 10.12691/ajmsm-2-5-3 2014 08 16 2014 10 05 2014 10 14 Diaphragmatic hernia in the absence of trauma is very rare in adults. Congenital diaphragmatic hernia is a major malformation and a relatively common condition found in babies. We present an incidental asymptomatic diaphragmatic hernia found in a middle age man brought for medico-legal autopsy. He was brought in dead with a gunshot wound to the right anterolateral aspect of the neck. With a complex embryological story, congenital abnormalities of the diaphragm are unusual but far more common are the acquired hernia. We discuss the index case and other causes of diaphragmatic hernia.