Pathology Series 2.0

Clinical History A 64-year old male presents with a 5-month history of generalised malaise, weight loss and dull right flank pain. On examination, there is a palpable right sided abdominal mass. He is noted to be hypertensive. Urinalysis reveals...

Clinical History A 72-year old female presented with colicky flank pain and increasing malaise. Intermittent haematuria was noted. Biochemical investigations reveal significantly impaired renal function. CT abdomen showed congenital renal agenesis of the...

Clinical History A 60 year old man who had worked in a paint factory for 40 years developed painless haematuria for one month. CT scan showed a suspected tumour in the left renal pelvis. He underwent a nephrectomy. Pathology This is the post-nephrectomy...

Clinical History A 54 year old male patient presents with flank pain. He is an active intravenous drug user. Further questioning reveals a history of intermittent haematuria, fevers, malaise and vomiting. On examination he is hypertensive and pyrexic...

Clinical History This specimen was found during a routine post-mortem of a 56-year-old male who died of rheumatic heart disease. Pathology The kidney is 12 cm in length and the two parts are fused at the lower pole forming this horseshoe-like shape. The...

Clinical History A 60-year-old man head a history of four episodes of severe gripping abdominal pain during the previous year, each lasting two hours and associated with meals. He presented with a similar attack associated with vomiting and fever. This...

Clinical History An 85-year old male presented with urinary retention due to benign prostatic hypertrophy. On admission it was noted that he was jaundiced with cholestatic derangement of his liver function tests. He underwent a transurethral prostate...

Clinical History A 54-year-old man presented to hospital with 12 hours of severe colicky pain, nausea and vomiting. On history, he was noted to have had a 3-year history of intermittent right subcostal pain for which he had not seen a doctor. He was...

Clinical History A 5-year old male presents with a history of constipation since birth. A barium enema showed a constricted rectum with a dilated sigmoid colon. Surgical resection of constricted section of bowl was attempted but the patient died during...

Clinical History There are no details of the clinical history. Pathology The specimens from this case consists of two segments of sigmoid colon. The mucosa of the bowel is studded with numerous sessile and pedunculated partially pigmented polyps up to 1...

Clinical History No clinical details are available. Pathology A slice of liver reveals the characteristic yellow/grey and greasy appearance on one side. On the other side the appearance is restricted to the outer margin whilst the central area displays...

Clinical History This 63-year old man had several previous admissions to hospital for bleeding from oesophageal varices. On admission he was noted to be mildly febrile, jaundiced with severe flapping tremor of his hands. He had a constellation of other...