Come fa presente l'autore, this site was designed in my fourth year of medical school at UCLA primarily for second-year medical students to help them appreciate the different audio characteristics of heart murmurs and breath sounds.... Enjoy! - Chris L'ho installato sul mio computer, e credo che ne sia valsa la pena. Mi sono servito di Windows Media Player (che ho preso gratuitamente dalla rete) e di Internet Explorer. Buon ascolto. Elio Rossi
Sono entrato per la prima volta in sala anatomica all'età di diciannove anni.La cosa che mi ha colpito di più, a parte lo spettacolo raccapricciante dei cadaveri sezionati, è stata una lastra di marmo posta all'ingresso su cui erano incise le seguenti parole: "Hic mors gaudet succurrere vitam", qui la morte si compiace di prestare soccorso alla vita. E' l'estremo omaggio dei nostri simili: ci offrono i loro corpi, ci consentono di studiarli. Forse, da questa indagine verrà fuori qualcosa di buono per noi stessi e per gli altri esseri umani. Sulla parete di fronte, immediatamente sotto il Crocifisso, un'altra lapide con la nota frase di Mondino: "Et non credat aliquis per solam vivam vocem aut scripturam hanc disciplinam habere possit, quia hinc requiritur visus et tactus": l'anatomia non si impara leggendo o ascoltando ma qui, osservando e toccando. La tecnologia, per quanto avanzata, ci consente per ora soltanto di vedere, ma è già molto se le immagini dei reperti sono parecchie e ben orgnizzate. Infine, la Croce. Rappresenta la cristiana pietà, il profondo rispetto che deve permeare il nostro animo quando adempiamo a compiti di ricerca e di studio sui resti mortali di persone che fino a qualche giorno fa erano vive, come noi ora. Il sito in argomento è curato da Edward C. Klatt MD, Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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General Pathology: Basic mechanisms of disease are illustrated in subject areas with images and text descriptions
Organ System Pathology: Each organ system is presented individually with site-specific images and text descriptions
Laboratory Exercises: Case-based problems in general pathology and organ system pathology subject areas are presented
Examinations: Over 1600 single answer, short matching, extended matching, short answer, and essay questions (requires version 4.5 or higher of Netscape or version 5 or higher of
Internet Explorer). Timed board-style general review quizzes are available
Mini-tutorials: Information about a variety of specific subject areas is illustrated with images and text descriptions
AIDS Pathology Images and text describing pathologic features seen with the acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome. An updated version (February 2001) of the complete electronic Textbook of AIDS Pathology in PDF can be downloaded
Anatomy-Histology: Normal anatomy and histology, along with diagnostic techniques, procedures, and correlative exercises are described and illustrated with images, text, and tutorials
Utah Landscapes: These images illustrate the wide variety of places to visit in the state of Utah
Many of the images seen here have been obtained from autopsy and cannot be obtained except through autopsy. The autopsy has been a vital part of medicine for over 300 years. An autopsy allows someone who has died to benefit other persons still alive or in the future. This is accomplished through the contributions of autopsy to:
improve the quality of medical diagnosis and therapy,
support research into new methods of diagnosis and treatment,
determine if there are diseases that may affect other family members,
help epidemiological studies by providing accurate statistical information about causes of death and about disease processes present, and to
support medical education. Additional images have also been obtained from surgical pathology specimens, cytopathology slides, and clinical laboratory specimens.
