Science Podcasts

A selection of autopsy cardiac specimens comprising Starr-Edwards silastic ball valves, a Bjork-Shiley tilting valve...

A 1944 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man dying of primary carcinoma of the lung. A septic pleural effusion...

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 a 39 year old male who had acquired amoebiasis in India. The liver shows two abscesses with...

An autopsy specimen from a 54 year old man, with known longstanding hydatid disease, who died of chronic renal failure.

A collection of gallstones found during routine autopsy in 75 successive cases, covering a wide field of trauma and...

Autopsy specimens from a 35 year old male with known HIV infection. He was admitted to hospital with diarrhoea and...

A 1974 autopsy specimen from a 25 year old male who died on ITU of multiorgan failure. The lung shows the features of...

A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 59 year old woman who had maintained a prostitute's business from a railway...

A sagittal section of primate brain showing cysticercosis.

A resin cast of the aortic root, right and left coronary arteries.

Both atrio-ventricular valves, mitral and tricuspid, mounted side by side.

A 1937 autopsy specimen from an 88 year old woman who was found lying dead on the hearthrug of her bedroom, two days...

A 1960 surgical resection specimen from a 64 year old man admitted with obstructive jaundice of three weeks duration....

An autopsy specimen from a 60 year old hypertensive man, one month before death he had an attack of dizziness, with...

A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 47 year old female. For 5 years she had had progressive leg weakness, inco-ordination of...

A 1946 autopsy specimen from a 67 year old female admitted with loss of energy and drowsiness. On examination, she was...

An autopsy from a 75 year old woman, who was celebrating her birthday by giving a tea party when she "came over...

An autopsy specimen from an 86 year old man who presented with abdominal pain. A clinical diagnosis of abdominal aortic...

An autopsy specimen from a 62 year old man, who collapsed in a cinema at 15:45 complaining of pain starting in the...

A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 76 year old grocer, who presented with a vague history of weakness and pallor. On direct...

A pot showing one half of a resected left lung showing multiple small foci of tuberculous caseation with developing...

A 1958 diagnostic biopsy specimen. No clinical history available. One portion of the specimen shows black pigmented...

A 1954 autopsy specimen consisting of a slice of indurated lung showing bronchiectasis and cystic cavitation with...