So here's an idea for the medics and non-medics amoung you. Welcome to the first installation of the All Scrubbed Up "What is THAT" Competition. From time to time, we'll post something up that I've either removed during a surgery - or that we've happened on across the medical web. Your job? Tell us what it is!
WARNING: The following images may not be suitable for children under the age of 16 - and squirmish males.
CLUE: 42 year old woman presents with growing mass in her abdomen for three years.
What is THAT? (Please post your answers as comments - winner gets... uh... their picture on the blog!)
Update: ANSWER HERE!
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ReplyDeletemyomatous uterus
ReplyDeleteInteresting... we'll wait a day or two and then REVEAL!
ReplyDeleteI don't know, but Lieutenant Ellen Ripley must have been close by!
ReplyDeleteamen brother. if they took that out of me - might as well just not wake me up.
ReplyDeleteone of those alien larvae just before it hatches and breaks out of the patient's chest? i hope you put it into formalin fast. their blood is acid, you know.
ReplyDeleteSome kind of malignancy around or in her womb?
ReplyDeleteGood lord, can't believe she waited for three years to do something about it!
It looks like a baby in an amniotic sac to me.
ReplyDeleteovarian cyst
ReplyDeletenope! see the next post!
ReplyDeleteAhhh, tazer that thing quick!
ReplyDelete