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27 October 2011
How do we tell people apart by using their DNA? From murder investigations to paternity testing, DNA fingerprinting is an essential tool in the modern world. But how is it carried out? Find out in...
01 August 2011
A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 76 year old grocer, who presented with a vague history of weakness and pallor. On direct...
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 1971 autopsy specimen from a child who died of diphtheria. The specimen consists of the tongue, larynx and upper half...
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
A collection of gallstones found during routine autopsy in 75 successive cases, covering a wide field of trauma and...
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
An autopsy specimen from a 54 year old man, with known longstanding hydatid disease, who died of chronic renal failure.
01 August 2011
A 1969 autopsy specimen from a woman of 56 who had a history of 5 years of increasing breathlessness. Eighteen months...
01 August 2011
A 1967 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old female who died of congestive cardiac failure.
01 August 2011
A surgically resected specimen of a fibrosed testis and epididymis, from a Fijian patient with bancroftian filariasis...
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 39 year old male who had acquired amoebiasis in India. The liver shows two abscesses with...
01 August 2011
A 1961 Ugandan autopsy specimen. The specimen is a parasagittal section through the base of the skull of a male aged 13...
01 August 2011
A selection of autopsy cardiac specimens comprising Starr-Edwards silastic ball valves, a Bjork-Shiley tilting valve...
01 August 2011
A segment of small intestine opened to show granularity and early ulceration due to schistosomiasis. No clinical...
01 August 2011
An incidental finding at autopsy on a man of 70, a hypertensive subject who collapsed and died of heart failure at home...
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
An autopsy from a 75 year old woman, who was celebrating her birthday by giving a tea party when she "came over...
Soft Tissue Pathology: Infectious Disease: Two Pots Showing Mycetoma of the Soft Tissues of the Foot
01 August 2011
Two surgical resection specimens. The first,consists of half of an amputated left foot showing a well marked mycetoma...
01 August 2011
A 1948 autopsy specimen from a 43 year old man who collapsed at work and was taken semiconscious to his local hospital...
01 August 2011
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...
01 August 2011
An operative resection specimen from a 42 year old man admitted for attacks of colicky pain of four months duration....
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 59 year old man admitted with chest pain. An antero-septal infarct was diagnosed. He...