Naked Pathology

Video commentaries of human histopathology specimens from London pathology museums. Produced by Jem Rashbass for the Royal College of Pathologists, London.

01 March 2012

(a) A 1905 operative resection specimen from a 30 year old woman admitted for a tumour in the abdomen. She had noted...

01 March 2012

An autopsy specimen from a 71 year old caucasian woman who had never been pregnant . Seventeen years after her...

01 March 2012

An operative resection specimen from a 49 year old woman who complained of abnormal uterine bleeding. No further...

01 March 2012

An operative resection specimen from a 68 year old woman who presented with a protruberant lesion of her vulva which...

01 March 2012

A 1939 autopsy specimen from a 40 year old nurse who experienced difficulty in swallowing in September 1938. In...

01 March 2012

A 1981 autopsy specimen from a 72 year old lady first seen in 1979 when she had a mastectomy for breast carcinoma. At...

01 March 2012

A 19th century autopsy specimen. No further clinical information available.

01 March 2012

A 1940 operative resection specimen from a boy of ten years. Who had acute abdominal pain at noon, vomiting twice and...

01 March 2012

An autopsy specimen from a 24 year old woman 8 weeks into her first pregnancy, taken to hospital with abdominal pain...

01 March 2012

(a) A 1947 autopsy specimen from a 30 year old woman who felt sudden lower abdominal pain and collapsed, pale and...

01 March 2012

A 1930 autopsy specimen from the newly born first child of a woman aged 34 years, delivered by forceps for delay in the...

01 March 2012

A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 42 year old man who died of air embolism during the course of infusion of an amino-acid...

01 March 2012

An operative resection specimen from a 45 year old woman who complained of menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea. She was a...

01 March 2012

(a) A 1952 operative resection specimen from a 32 year old, admitted with lower abdominal pain, vomiting, headache, and...

01 March 2012

A 1940 operative resection specimen from a boy of ten years. Who had acute abdominal pain at noon, vomiting twice and...

01 March 2012

A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man who complained of "passing wind in the urine" for two days. A...

01 March 2012

A 1997 autopsy specimen from a 28 year old man who was known to be HIV-ve in October 1996. He presented in May 1997...

01 March 2012

An operative resection specimen from a 59 year old woman admitted to hospital for a prolapsed uterus. The abdomen had...

01 March 2012

An operative resection specimen from a 48 year old woman who presented with a long history of menorrhagia and...

01 March 2012

An autopsy specimen from a 59 year old man known to have cirrhosis of the liver, when his condition began to...

01 March 2012

An operative resection specimen from a 22 year old woman who had a three month history of epigastric pain, stabbing in...

01 February 2012

First specimen: from a 53 year old woman who died of a cerebral haemorrhage. She was unmarried and had never been...

01 February 2012

A 1960 autopsy specimen from a 50 year old woman who had noticed a lump in her right breast 5.5 months prior to her...