Naked Pathology

Video commentaries of human histopathology specimens from London pathology museums. Produced by Jem Rashbass for the Royal College of Pathologists, London.

01 August 2011

A 1958 diagnostic biopsy specimen. No clinical history available. One portion of the specimen shows black pigmented...

01 August 2011

A pot showing one half of a resected left lung showing multiple small foci of tuberculous caseation with developing...

01 August 2011

A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 76 year old grocer, who presented with a vague history of weakness and pallor. On direct...

01 August 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 62 year old man, who collapsed in a cinema at 15:45 complaining of pain starting in the...

01 August 2011

An autopsy from a 75 year old woman, who was celebrating her birthday by giving a tea party when she "came over...

01 August 2011

A 1946 autopsy specimen from a 67 year old female admitted with loss of energy and drowsiness. On examination, she was...

01 August 2011

A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 47 year old female. For 5 years she had had progressive leg weakness, inco-ordination of...

01 August 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 60 year old hypertensive man, one month before death he had an attack of dizziness, with...

01 August 2011

A 1960 surgical resection specimen from a 64 year old man admitted with obstructive jaundice of three weeks duration....

01 August 2011

A 1937 autopsy specimen from an 88 year old woman who was found lying dead on the hearthrug of her bedroom, two days...

01 August 2011

Both atrio-ventricular valves, mitral and tricuspid, mounted side by side.

01 August 2011

A resin cast of the aortic root, right and left coronary arteries.

01 August 2011

A sagittal section of primate brain showing cysticercosis.

01 August 2011

A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 59 year old woman who had maintained a prostitute's business from a railway...

01 August 2011

An autopsy specimen from an 86 year old man who presented with abdominal pain. A clinical diagnosis of abdominal aortic...

01 July 2011

1954 autopsy specimens from a 69 year old woman. She complained of pain in the chest during the day, retired to bed at...

01 July 2011

A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 5 year old child who developed unsteadiness of gait. The lesion was biopsied (for...

01 July 2011

An autopsy specimen comprising a sagittal section through the posterior thoracic vertebrae, spinal cord and overlying...

01 July 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 52 year old female who was admitted in May 1981 with right sided hemiplegia. At the time of...

01 July 2011

A 1954 operative resection specimen from a 51 year old woman who had suffered from attacks of severe upper abdominal...

01 July 2011

A horizontal section of the upper heart showing the anatomical relations of the tricuspid, mitral, aortic and pulmonary...

01 July 2011

A resin cast preparation of the coronary arteries demonstrating the minimal but definite collateral circulation between...

01 July 2011

An 1899 autopsy specimen from an 8 month old child admitted on July 20th for convulsions, which had commenced five days...

01 July 2011

A 1969 autopsy specimen from a 60 year old male, who had undergone aortic valve replacement ten years previously for...