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An autopsy specimen from a 62 year old man, who had progressive choreiform movements and mental deterioration over 7...
An autopsy specimen from an elderly male who presented with bilateral ischaemia of the legs following recent myocardial...
A 59 year old man presented with gross aortic regurgitation secondary to Marfan's syndrome...
A 1948 autopsy specimen from a 65 year old man who had a routine sigmoid colectomy for malignancy. Two weeks after...
An autopsy specimen from a 66 year old diabetic woman, who had developed considerable pain and rapidly deepening...
A 1930 autopsy specimen from a man aged 50, who died of Blackwater fever. The specimen consists of an enlarged...
A 1924 autopsy specimen showing advanced amoebic ulceration of the colon. The ulcers have become contiguous and the...
From an infant of three days, who died towards the end of a plastic procedure for organisation of the gullet. It had...
A 1933 autopsy specimen from a 4 day old neonate, admitted with cyanosis and vomiting, both present since birth and...
A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 71 years old man who had had difficulty in swallowing solid food for nearly three months...
An autopsy specimen from a 52 year old former intravenous drug user who was admitted with jaundice...
Born under the care of a midwife and not examined by a doctor never achieved more than a slight green stain on the...
A 1972 autopsy specimen from a 4 month old boy, constipated since birth, who did not pass meconium until a rectal...
An operative resection specimen from a 64 year old man who had complained of diarrhoea and colic for one year. A barium...
A 1962 operative resection specimen from a 57 year old lady who had developed bloody diarrhoea some twenty years...
Deborah E., aged 9 years, had chronic glomerulonephritis with end-stage renal failure and hypertension. It was...
An autopsy specimen from a 41 year old woman admitted in December 1963 with 45 per cent full thickness burns, due to...
A 1949 autopsy specimen from a 59 year old man who complained of pain in the chest on September 30th. The pain came on...
A 1976 autopsy specimen from a 57 year old man who presented with angina pectoris and then pain in his tongue. He had a...
A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 53 year old man, admitted with a right sided bronchopneumonia which had failed to...
A slice of liver which shows two well demarcated necrotic pale lesions 3 cms in diameter. The lower one has a...
A swiss autopsy specimen, comprising liver with a large necrotic cavity caused by Echinococcus multiocularis. The...
A 1912 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man admitted, under Mr Arbuthnott Lane, for acute pain in the right side of...
A 73 year old woman who died two hours after admission to hospital. At autopsy, a gallstone stone was found in the...