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Visual atlas

50 ultrasound20 tracings63 photographs and figures

Everything the platform shows, laid out by modality with its source. Ultrasound images open in the lab with the answer held back; here they are captioned, so this is the page to browse after you have practised.

Obstetric ultrasound

Real images, credited. Titles here name the finding; the lab does not.

Gynaecological ultrasound

Uterus, endometrium, adnexa, devices.

Fetal heart rate tracings

Authored schematic teaching tracings generated from parameters; none is a real patient's recording.

Photographs and figures

The placenta, the monitor, the instruments, the drawings.

  • A delivered placenta, fetal side, with the umbilical cord inserting near the centre and the membranes around the edge

    Habj (Wikimedia Commons) · Public domain

  • A placenta minutes after delivery, fetal surface, chorionic vessels radiating from the cord insertion

    Grendelkhan · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A delivered placenta held up by its membranes, maternal surface showing the cotyledons

    moppet65535 · CC BY-SA 2.0

  • A fetal monitor on a labour ward showing the fetal heart rate in large figures and the paper strip emerging beneath

    Eliran t · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A printed cardiotocograph: the fetal heart rate trace above and the uterine activity trace below on gridded paper

    Mariakeernik · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • A cardiotocograph printout for a woman not in labour, with the fetal heart rate, movement markers and uterine activity channels labelled A to D

    PhantomSteve · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • A cardiotocography machine on a stand with its two transducers and paper output

    Tommy Halvarsson · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • A Cusco bivalve speculum, closed, seen from the side

    Sarindam7 · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A sagittal diagram of the pelvis with a speculum in place, blades open to show the cervix

    Sciencia58 · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A line drawing of the bimanual examination: two fingers in the vagina, the other hand on the abdomen, with the uterus, bladder, ovary and tube labelled

    National Cancer Institute · Public domain

  • Four drawings of Leopold's manoeuvres from the 1894 original: the fundus, the sides, the presenting part and the pelvic grip

    Christian Gerhard Leopold (1894) · Public domain

  • First Leopold manoeuvre: both hands on the fundus

    Leopold and Spörlin (1894) · Public domain

  • Second Leopold manoeuvre: hands on either side of the uterus to find the back

    Leopold and Spörlin (1894) · Public domain

  • Third Leopold manoeuvre: one hand grasps the presenting part above the pubis

    Leopold and Spörlin (1894) · Public domain

  • Fourth Leopold manoeuvre: facing the feet, fingers press either side of the presenting part

    Leopold and Spörlin (1894) · Public domain

  • A colposcope on its stand

    S. Kellam · Public domain

  • An illustration of colposcopy: the magnified view of the cervix through the speculum with an inset of the tissue

    BruceBlaus · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A nulliparous cervix seen through a speculum, with a red ring of columnar epithelium around the os, an ectropion

    GynaeImages · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A cervix seen through a speculum with a small round os

    Tequilla11 · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A cervix photographed after acetic acid, with no acetowhite change, a negative visual inspection

    Lee H, Makin MS, Mtengezo JT et al. · CC BY 4.0

  • Dried fluid under the microscope showing a fern-like crystal pattern

    Paul_012 · CC BY-SA 2.0

  • Two illustrations: a placenta in its usual position on the upper uterus, and a placenta covering the cervix

    BruceBlaus · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A watercolour of two uteri: a marginal placenta praevia reaching the internal os and a complete praevia covering it

    Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A coloured pencil drawing of a term fetus with a complete placenta praevia that is bleeding

    Bonnie Urquhart Gruenberg · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A normal hysterosalpingogram: contrast fills a triangular uterine cavity and both tubes, with spill into the peritoneum

    Jmarchn · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • A hysterosalpingogram with filling defects in the uterine cavity from intrauterine adhesions, labelled

    Floranerolia · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • An ultrasound machine's monitor showing a fetal profile at 20 weeks

    Goleisureintl · CC BY 4.0

  • Longitudinal cut through the cervix and lower uterine segment of a hysterectomy specimen, with a pale tumour in the cavity above a normal cervix and a ruler for scale

    Ed Uthman · CC BY 2.0

  • An opened uterus with a friable pale tumour filling the endometrial cavity and extending into the myometrium, ruler above

    Ed Uthman · CC BY 2.0

  • A cut uterus in a specimen jar with a carcinomatous growth of the endometrium invading the myometrium

    Netha Hussain · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Hysterectomy specimen photographed under water: a mass of translucent grape-like vesicles filling the cavity, a complete hydatidiform mole

    Ed Uthman · CC BY 2.0

  • Low-power photomicrograph of a partial hydatidiform mole: swollen hydropic villi on the left beside relatively normal villi on the right

    Ed Uthman · CC BY 2.0

  • An 11 cm opened ovarian cystadenoma with many thin-walled locules, a multilocular cystic tumour

    Ed Uthman · CC BY 2.0

  • Micrograph of an ovarian serous cystadenoma, H&E stain: a single layer of bland epithelium over a fibrous wall

    Nephron · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • High-power histology of a serous cystadenoma of the ovary with scattered ciliated cells, resembling tubal epithelium

    Michiko Nagamine and Yoshiki Mikami · CC BY 4.0

  • Micrograph of proliferative phase endometrium, H&E stain: straight tubular glands in a cellular stroma

    Nephron · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Labelled low-power histology of secretory endometrium: stratum compactum, stratum spongiosum with corkscrew glands, stratum basale and the myometrium beneath

    Roshan Nasimudeen · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Micrograph of differentiated vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, H&E stain: basal atypia with anastomosing rete ridges

    Nephron · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Sagittal fat-suppressed T2 MRI of the pelvis with a bright round cyst at the posterior introitus, a Bartholin gland cyst

    Hellerhoff · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Axial fat-suppressed T2 MRI of the perineum with a bright round cyst beside the vaginal introitus, a Bartholin gland cyst

    Hellerhoff · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Four axial pelvic MRI panels rendered in false colour: a functional cyst, a haemorrhagic cyst, a mature teratoma with a fat-fluid level, and an endometrioma

    Nevit Dilmen · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • A copper intrauterine device, the Multiload Cu 250, beside a centimetre scale

    Sarang · Public domain

  • A diagram of a copper intrauterine device in place in the uterine cavity, the copper wire on the stem and the strings through the cervix

    Ships at a Distance · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Sagittal T2 MRI of the pelvis with a bulky uterus whose posterior wall is thickened and studded with small bright foci, an arrow on the junctional zone

    Varun Babu, Radiopaedia.org (rID 43504) · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • A hysterectomy specimen cut open to show a large solitary yellow-white whorled fibroid in the fundus, splaying the endometrial cavity into a Y shape

    Ed Uthman · Public domain

  • A museum specimen of a uterus cut to show many whorled fibroids of different sizes filling the wall

    Pathology museum, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine (photograph by Alaa) · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • An opened ovarian dermoid cyst with hair and sebaceous material inside, removed at caesarean section

    Ed Uthman · CC BY 2.0

  • Micrograph of a mature cystic teratoma of the ovary, H&E stain, with skin adnexal structures and mature tissue

    Ed Uthman · CC BY 2.0

  • Micrograph of a nodule of mature hyaline cartilage within an ovarian teratoma, H&E stain

    Mikael Häggström · CC0

  • A labelled composite of laparoscopic photographs: four examples each of peritoneal endometriosis, ovarian endometriosis, endometriosis on the uterus and deep infiltrating endometriosis

    Leibetseder et al. · CC BY 4.0

  • Laparoscopic view of a perforated endometriosis cyst of the left ovary with dark chocolate-coloured contents

    Hic et nunc · Public domain

  • A drawing of a levonorgestrel intrauterine system in place in the uterine cavity, the hormone reservoir on the stem and the threads through the cervix

    Hic et nunc · Public domain

  • Photomicrograph of a liquid-based Pap smear: normal squamous cells on the left, HPV-infected cells with enlarged dark nuclei and perinuclear halos on the right, a low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion

    Ed Uthman · CC BY-SA 2.0

  • A labelled sagittal illustration of the female pelvis: uterine tube, ovary, uterus, vesicouterine and rectouterine pouches, vagina, cervix, fornix, labia and the greater vestibular gland

    Blausen Medical (BruceBlaus), Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014, WikiJournal of Medicine · CC BY 3.0

  • An eighteenth-century engraving of the pregnant uterus opened from the front to show a term fetus in its natural position, head down, from William Hunter's atlas of the gravid uterus

    Jan van Rymsdyk for William Hunter, Anatomia uteri humani gravidi (1774), Wellcome Collection · CC BY 4.0

  • An engraving from William Hunter's atlas showing the opened gravid uterus with the fetus curled inside, seen from the side

    Jan van Rymsdyk for William Hunter, Anatomia uteri humani gravidi (1774), Wellcome Collection · CC BY 4.0

  • A line drawing of a woman's torso with the uterus at the end of the first, second and third trimesters outlined and labelled, the fundus rising from the pelvis to the ribs

    OpenStax College, Anatomy and Physiology · CC BY 3.0

  • Laparoscopic view of the pelvis with the uterus marked by blue arrows and a swollen, dusky left fallopian tube marked by red arrows, a tubal ectopic pregnancy

    Mikael Häggström · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • A nineteenth-century obstetric plate of breech presentations and the manoeuvres for delivering them, from Kilian's atlas, Wellcome Collection

    Hermann Friedrich Kilian, Wellcome Collection · CC BY 4.0

  • A labelled composite of ultrasound scans of polycystic ovaries with automated follicle counting and a three-dimensional rendering of the follicles

    Di Michele, Fulghesu, Pittui, Cordella et al. · CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Axial CT of the pelvis with a large heterogeneous mass circled, arising from the adnexa, an ovarian cancer

    James Heilman, MD · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Sagittal T2-weighted MRI of the pelvis with an intermediate-signal mass replacing the cervix, a cervical cancer

    Rádiológ (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA 3.0

  • Gray's Anatomy plate of the uterus and right broad ligament from behind, the broad ligament spread out and the ovary drawn down, with the ligament of the ovary, uterine tube, epoophoron and fimbria labelled

    Henry Vandyke Carter, Gray's Anatomy (1918) · Public domain