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An operative resection specimen from a 48 year old woman who presented with a long history of menorrhagia and...
An operative resection specimen from a 45 year old woman who complained of menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea. She was a...
(a) A 1947 autopsy specimen from a 30 year old woman who felt sudden lower abdominal pain and collapsed, pale and...
(a) A 1952 operative resection specimen from a 32 year old, admitted with lower abdominal pain, vomiting, headache, and...
An autopsy specimen from a 24 year old woman 8 weeks into her first pregnancy, taken to hospital with abdominal pain...
An operative resection specimen from a 49 year old woman who complained of abnormal uterine bleeding. No further...
An autopsy specimen from a 71 year old caucasian woman who had never been pregnant . Seventeen years after her...
An operative resection specimen from a 68 year old woman who presented with a protruberant lesion of her vulva which...
A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man who complained of "passing wind in the urine" for two days. A...
A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 42 year old man who died of air embolism during the course of infusion of an amino-acid...
An operative resection specimen from a 22 year old woman who had a three month history of epigastric pain, stabbing in...
A 1940 operative resection specimen from a boy of ten years. Who had acute abdominal pain at noon, vomiting twice and...
A 1940 operative resection specimen from a boy of ten years. Who had acute abdominal pain at noon, vomiting twice and...
A 1930 autopsy specimen from the newly born first child of a woman aged 34 years, delivered by forceps for delay in the...
From DVD players and supermarket scanners to laser pointers and Bond movies, lasers are part of our lives. But just how...
Huge amounts of energy are lost from power stations and cars as heat. But what if we could harness that heat and turn...
Most of us have a microwave oven in our kitchen. They make heating up leftovers and the dreaded readymeal much faster...
An autopsy specimen. No clinical history is available for this specimen.
Two autopsy specimens from the 1940s, the first from a forty year old woman found dead, with her head comfortably set...
First specimen: from a 53 year old woman who died of a cerebral haemorrhage. She was unmarried and had never been...
A 1960 autopsy specimen from a 50 year old woman who had noticed a lump in her right breast 5.5 months prior to her...
An operative resection specimen from a married woman of seventy with no children. Menopause had occurred twenty years...
A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 70 year old lady, admitted as an emergency, with drowsiness and a flaccid paralysis of...
An autopsy specimen from a 3 year old child who had had hydrocephalus since birth. Head circumference reaching 55 cm by...