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A 1938 autopsy specimen from a 53 year old sailor who fell down a companionway on board ship on March 20th. He was...
A 1997 autopsy specimen from a 30 year old British male, HIV +ve for several years, admitted with mental confusion. A...
A neonatal autopsy specimen from a case of alleged neglect at birth. An unmarried girl of 27, already the mother of...
An autopsy specimen from a 66 year old female with quadriparesis progressing over 14 years.
An autopsy specimen from a 13 year old boy who died of staphylococcal septicaemia. No other clinical details are...
A 1912 autopsy specimen from a 73 year old man who presented with acute abdominal pain of four days duration,...
A surgical resection specimen from a 35 year old man. He presented with right hypochondrial pain of 10 months duration...
An 1864 autopsy specimen from a 36 year old man admitted for stricture of the urethra. When about to be discharged,...
A 1931 autopsy specimen from a man, aged 71, who had had a coronary occlusion two and a half years prior to his death....
An operative resection specimen from a 20 year old woman from Pakistan who presented with right iliac fossa pain three...
This is an example of an unused pig valve prepared for replacement of a human cardiac valve.
A 1943 autopsy specimen from a 27 year old found unconscious, frothing at the mouth, by the side of her bed. She was...
A 1974 autopsy specimen from a 75 year old female who was known to have atrial fibrillation. She developed a right...
An incidental finding from an autopsy on a 72 year old lady dying of ischaemic heart disease in 1978.
A 1947 autopsy specimen from a 34 year old mans contracted dysentery in Burma and was invalided out of the army in 1945...
A 1958 operative resection specimen comprising an appendix removed from a 20 year old man who presented with classic...
An autopsy specimen from a 40 year old woman had increasing dyspnoea for thirteen years with recent attacks of winter...
A 1931 autopsy specimen from a 27 year old man admitted for diarrhoea which had been intermittent for three months. The...
A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 65 year old woman who complained of a small swelling in the abdominal wall following a...
A 1976 autopsy specimen from a 65 year old business man, with a history of hypertension. He awoke one night with...
A normal Liver View from the cisceral aspect to show the normal lobar architecture. Probe key:- Hepatic artery (Red);...
An autopsy specimen from a 29 year old woman from Portugal who was admitted to the intensive care unit on 17.10.76. She...
First specimen: A surgical resection specimen from a 57 year old woman who had had intermittent attacks of severe upper...
A 1904 autopsy specimen consisting of the heart opened to demonstrate hydatid cysts in various stages of evolution. No...