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06 September 2011
If a diver surfaces too quickly after a dive, they can get the bends, or decompression sickness, causing excruciating...
01 September 2011
A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 65 year old woman who complained of a small swelling in the abdominal wall following a...
01 September 2011
A 1938 autopsy specimen from a 53 year old sailor who fell down a companionway on board ship on March 20th. He was...
01 September 2011
A normal Liver View from the cisceral aspect to show the normal lobar architecture. Probe key:- Hepatic artery (Red);...
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 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 operative resection specimen from a 20 year old woman from Pakistan who presented with right iliac fossa pain three...
01 September 2011
This is an example of an unused pig valve prepared for replacement of a human cardiac valve.
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
A 1974 autopsy specimen from a 75 year old female who was known to have atrial fibrillation. She developed a right...
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
A 1958 autopsy specimen from a 54 year old man admitted with a history of attacks of colicky abdominal pain. On...
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 1971 autopsy specimen from the Dreadnought hospital. The specimen, an incidental finding, comprises a male urethra...
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
First specimen: A surgical resection specimen from a 57 year old woman who had had intermittent attacks of severe upper...
01 September 2011
A 1958 operative resection specimen comprising an appendix removed from a 20 year old man who presented with classic...
01 September 2011
A 1931 autopsy specimen from a man, aged 71, who had had a coronary occlusion two and a half years prior to his death....
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 liver from a woman aged 55 from Dominica who suffered from Schistosomamansoni infection. Death was due to...
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
An autopsy specimen from a 40 year old woman had increasing dyspnoea for thirteen years with recent attacks of winter...
01 September 2011
An 1864 autopsy specimen from a 36 year old man admitted for stricture of the urethra. When about to be discharged,...
01 September 2011
An operative resection specimen from a 43 year old woman with von Recklinghausen's Disease (neurofibromatosis) who...