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An operative resection specimen from a 45 year old woman who complained of menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea. She was a...
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...
An autopsy specimen from a 59 year old man known to have cirrhosis of the liver, when his condition began to...
An operative resection specimen from a 59 year old woman admitted to hospital for a prolapsed uterus. The abdomen had...
An operative resection specimen from a 49 year old woman who complained of abnormal uterine bleeding. No further...
An operative resection specimen from a 68 year old woman who presented with a protruberant lesion of her vulva which...
A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 42 year old man who died of air embolism during the course of infusion of an amino-acid...
A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man who complained of "passing wind in the urine" for two days. A...
A 1940 operative resection specimen from a boy of ten years. Who had acute abdominal pain at noon, vomiting twice and...
An autopsy specimen from a 71 year old caucasian woman who had never been pregnant . Seventeen years after her...
A 1981 autopsy specimen from a 72 year old lady first seen in 1979 when she had a mastectomy for breast carcinoma. At...
(a) A 1905 operative resection specimen from a 30 year old woman admitted for a tumour in the abdomen. She had noted...
A 1940 operative resection specimen from a boy of ten years. Who had acute abdominal pain at noon, vomiting twice and...
An operative resection specimen from a 22 year old woman who had a three month history of epigastric pain, stabbing in...
From DVD players and supermarket scanners to laser pointers and Bond movies, lasers are part of our lives. But just how...
Huge amounts of energy are lost from power stations and cars as heat. But what if we could harness that heat and turn...
Most of us have a microwave oven in our kitchen. They make heating up leftovers and the dreaded readymeal much faster...
An autopsy specimen from a 3 year old child who had had hydrocephalus since birth. Head circumference reaching 55 cm by...
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...
A 1957 autopsy specimen from a middle aged man who had noticed seven years progressive loss of concentration and...
An autopsy specimen. No clinical history is available for this specimen.
Two autopsy specimens from the 1940s, the first from a forty year old woman found dead, with her head comfortably set...
A 1977 autopsy specimen from a 70 year old lady, admitted as an emergency, with drowsiness and a flaccid paralysis of...
First specimen: from a 53 year old woman who died of a cerebral haemorrhage. She was unmarried and had never been...