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01 September 2011
A neonatal autopsy specimen from a case of alleged neglect at birth. An unmarried girl of 27, already the mother of...
01 September 2011
An operative resection specimen from a 43 year old woman with von Recklinghausen's Disease (neurofibromatosis) who...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 40 year old woman had increasing dyspnoea for thirteen years with recent attacks of winter...
01 September 2011
A 1937 autopsy specimen from a fatal case of Weil's disease (leptospirosis) comprising halves of both kidneys. No...
01 September 2011
A 1928 operative resection specimen from a 40 year old man admitted with symptoms of intestinal obstruction. Six years...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen of liver showing the classic appearance of hepar lobatum the non-cirrhotic fibrosis of tertiary...
01 September 2011
A 1917 autopsy specimen from an officer in the British army in France who until the day before his death was in robust...
01 September 2011
A 1976 autopsy specimen from a 65 year old business man, with a history of hypertension. He awoke one night with...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 76 year old female who presented with headaches and was found to have a berry aneurysm....
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 42 year old man admitted with a six week history of colic often with bouts of vomiting. The...
01 September 2011
This is an example of an unused pig valve prepared for replacement of a human cardiac valve.
01 September 2011
A surgical resection specimen from a 35 year old man. He presented with right hypochondrial pain of 10 months duration...
01 September 2011
A 1931 autopsy specimen from a 27 year old man admitted for diarrhoea which had been intermittent for three months. The...
01 September 2011
A 1974 autopsy specimen from a 75 year old female who was known to have atrial fibrillation. She developed a right...
01 September 2011
An incidental finding from an autopsy on a 72 year old lady dying of ischaemic heart disease in 1978.
01 September 2011
A 1964 autopsy specimen from a 38 year old woman, who first noticed a lump in her neck a year before her death....
01 September 2011
A 1997 autopsy specimen from a 30 year old British male, HIV +ve for several years, admitted with mental confusion. A...
01 September 2011
A 1948 autopsy specimen from a 71 year old man, who died of heart failure due to hypertension. There had been no...
01 September 2011
A liver from a woman aged 55 from Dominica who suffered from Schistosomamansoni infection. Death was due to...
01 September 2011
A 1947 autopsy specimen from a 34 year old mans contracted dysentery in Burma and was invalided out of the army in 1945...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 13 year old boy who died of staphylococcal septicaemia. No other clinical details are...
01 September 2011
A 1974 autopsy specimen from a 72 year old obese woman who had had a history of gallstones for many years. For the two...
01 September 2011
A 1943 autopsy specimen from a 27 year old found unconscious, frothing at the mouth, by the side of her bed. She was...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from the former Wellcome collection, consisting of the kidney, pelvis and ureter showing...