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A 1963 surgical resection specimen of a finger showing marked fusiform swelling, involving the interphalangeal joint,...
A 1944 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man dying of primary carcinoma of the lung. A septic pleural effusion...
An autopsy from a 75 year old woman, who was celebrating her birthday by giving a tea party when she "came over...
A 1976 autopsy preparation comprising sections of coronary arteries from six different individuals who died from...
A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 59 year old woman who had maintained a prostitute's business from a railway...
A 1911 autopsy specimen from a man aged 40 years, who was admitted under Dr. Shaw for pain in the left loin. He had had...
A surgically resected specimen of a fibrosed testis and epididymis, from a Fijian patient with bancroftian filariasis...
A 1969 autopsy specimen from a middle aged woman who died suddenly. No further clinical details available.
A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 47 year old female. For 5 years she had had progressive leg weakness, inco-ordination of...
A 1969 autopsy specimen from a woman of 56 who had a history of 5 years of increasing breathlessness. Eighteen months...
Autopsy specimens from a 35 year old male with known HIV infection. He was admitted to hospital with diarrhoea and...
An incidental finding at autopsy on a man of 70, a hypertensive subject who collapsed and died of heart failure at home...
Soft Tissue Pathology: Infectious Disease: Two Pots Showing Mycetoma of the Soft Tissues of the Foot
Two surgical resection specimens. The first,consists of half of an amputated left foot showing a well marked mycetoma...
A 1967 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old female who died of congestive cardiac failure.
A 1960 surgical resection specimen from a 64 year old man admitted with obstructive jaundice of three weeks duration....
An operative resection specimen from a 36 year old woman who complained of attacks of intense supra-pubic pain,...
An autopsy specimen from a 54 year old man, with known longstanding hydatid disease, who died of chronic renal failure.
A 1958 diagnostic biopsy specimen. No clinical history available. One portion of the specimen shows black pigmented...
A 1946 autopsy specimen from a 35 year old clerk, who had had rheumatic fever at the age of 13 and was confined to bed...
Both atrio-ventricular valves, mitral and tricuspid, mounted side by side.
An operative resection specimen from a 42 year old man admitted for attacks of colicky pain of four months duration....
A 1971 autopsy specimen from a child who died of diphtheria. The specimen consists of the tongue, larynx and upper half...
A 1952 operative resection specimen from a 52 year old woman who had had a large goitre for two years associated only...
An autopsy specimen from an 86 year old man who presented with abdominal pain. A clinical diagnosis of abdominal aortic...