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Video podcast strands produced by the Naked Scientists.
01 August 2011
A selection of autopsy cardiac specimens comprising Starr-Edwards silastic ball valves, a Bjork-Shiley tilting valve...
01 August 2011
A 1954 autopsy specimen consisting of a slice of indurated lung showing bronchiectasis and cystic cavitation with...
01 August 2011
A 1957 autopsy specimen from a 55 year old man who collapsed in the street and was brought dead to the Bethnal Green...
01 August 2011
A 1974 autopsy specimen from a 25 year old male who died on ITU of multiorgan failure. The lung shows the features of...
01 August 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 60 year old hypertensive man, one month before death he had an attack of dizziness, with...
01 August 2011
A 1927 autopsy specimen from a stillborn foetus. Mother was a primagravida and the stillbirth occurred after an...
01 August 2011
A 1961 autopsy specimen from a 44 year old woman who was first admitted to Guy's four years before her death....
01 August 2011
A pot showing one half of a resected left lung showing multiple small foci of tuberculous caseation with developing...
01 August 2011
A 1964 autopsy specimen from a 76 year old woman admitted in congestive heart failure. A rumbling apical diastolic...
01 August 2011
A collection of gallstones found during routine autopsy in 75 successive cases, covering a wide field of trauma and...
01 August 2011
A 1963 surgical resection specimen of a finger showing marked fusiform swelling, involving the interphalangeal joint,...
01 August 2011
A 1938 autopsy specimen from a 46 year old man who had "not had a day's illness" from childhood until...
01 August 2011
A 1937 autopsy specimen from an 88 year old woman who was found lying dead on the hearthrug of her bedroom, two days...
01 August 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 62 year old man, who collapsed in a cinema at 15:45 complaining of pain starting in the...
01 August 2011
An operative resection specimen from a 22 year old man, admitted with severe bloody diarrhoea ten days duration. He had...
01 August 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 39 year old male who had acquired amoebiasis in India. The liver shows two abscesses with...
01 August 2011
A surgically resected specimen of a fibrosed testis and epididymis, from a Fijian patient with bancroftian filariasis...
01 August 2011
A 1936 autopsy specimen from a 48 year old solicitor's clerk, who had had no medical attention for twenty-five...
01 August 2011
A resin cast of the aortic root, right and left coronary arteries.
01 August 2011
An autopsy from a 75 year old woman, who was celebrating her birthday by giving a tea party when she "came over...
01 August 2011
From a hyperteloric child of five, pale, weak and with mild rachitic changes, who had bled slightly from the rectum...
01 August 2011
A 1944 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man dying of primary carcinoma of the lung. A septic pleural effusion...
12 July 2011
Being able to fly off on holiday is something we may take for granted. But how does the big metal tube you're...
01 July 2011
An autopsy specimen from a fatal case of amoebic infection. No further clinical information is available. The specimen...