Video Podcasts

Video podcast strands produced by the Naked Scientists.

01 September 2011

An incidental finding from an autopsy on a 72 year old lady dying of ischaemic heart disease in 1978.

01 September 2011

A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 65 year old woman who complained of a small swelling in the abdominal wall following a...

01 September 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 42 year old man admitted with a six week history of colic often with bouts of vomiting. The...

01 September 2011

A 1936 autopsy specimen from a 37 year old children's nurse admitted for painful swellings of the neck and loss of...

01 September 2011

A 1928 operative resection specimen from a 40 year old man admitted with symptoms of intestinal obstruction. Six years...

01 September 2011

A 1958 operative resection specimen comprising an appendix removed from a 20 year old man who presented with classic...

01 September 2011

An 1864 autopsy specimen from a 36 year old man admitted for stricture of the urethra. When about to be discharged,...

01 September 2011

A 1947 autopsy specimen from a 34 year old mans contracted dysentery in Burma and was invalided out of the army in 1945...

01 September 2011

An operative resection specimen from a 20 year old woman from Pakistan who presented with right iliac fossa pain three...

01 September 2011

A 1931 autopsy specimen from a 27 year old man admitted for diarrhoea which had been intermittent for three months. The...

01 September 2011

An 1861 autopsy specimen from a 32 year old woman admitted for enlargement of the abdomen. She died a week after her...

01 September 2011

A 1976 autopsy specimen from a 65 year old business man, with a history of hypertension. He awoke one night with...

01 September 2011

A 1931 autopsy specimen from a man, aged 71, who had had a coronary occlusion two and a half years prior to his death....

01 September 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 40 year old woman had increasing dyspnoea for thirteen years with recent attacks of winter...

01 September 2011

A 1943 autopsy specimen from a 27 year old found unconscious, frothing at the mouth, by the side of her bed. She was...

01 September 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 29 year old woman from Portugal who was admitted to the intensive care unit on 17.10.76. She...

01 September 2011

A 1964 autopsy specimen from a 38 year old woman, who first noticed a lump in her neck a year before her death....

01 September 2011

A 1904 autopsy specimen consisting of the heart opened to demonstrate hydatid cysts in various stages of evolution. No...

01 September 2011

A 1974 autopsy specimen from a 75 year old female who was known to have atrial fibrillation. She developed a right...

01 September 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 76 year old female who presented with headaches and was found to have a berry aneurysm....

01 September 2011

A 1987 operative specimen from a 67 year old man who presented with a two year history of a progressively enlarging...

01 September 2011

This is an example of an unused pig valve prepared for replacement of a human cardiac valve.

01 September 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 66 year old female with quadriparesis progressing over 14 years.

01 September 2011

An autopsy specimen from a 13 year old boy who died of staphylococcal septicaemia. No other clinical details are...