bionic arm.click on the image to read the full content.
CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKAEMIA
A blood smear showing chronic lymphatic leukaemia, a cancer of the tissues that form the blood.
HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA
A light micrograph of hairy cell leukemia, a chronic lymphoid leukemia that was originally described in 1958.
AML
An acute myelosis, an acute leukaemia in which the main cellular disturbances occur in the myelocytes and myeloblasts. Typical symptoms are spongy bleeding gums and joint pain. Tumours may form in the bone and connective tissue. Here there is redness on the forehead.
ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA
A photomicrograph of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a cancer of blood-forming tissues marked by rapid growth of not fully formed granular leukocytes, a type of white blood cell. AML is also called acute nonlymphocytic leukemia or ANLL.
FUNGAL INFECTION - HIV
fungal infection, any inflammation caused by a fungus. Most fungal infections are mild, but hard to get rid of. Some, particularly in older, weakened people, may become life-threatening. Some kinds of fungal infections are aspergillosis, blastomycosis, candidiasis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis.
CT SCAN - HIV ENCEPHALOPATHY
A CT scan of the brain from a patient with degenerative disease of the cerebrum due to human immunodeficiency virus infection.
LIPODYSTROPHY AND VARICOSE VEINS IN HIV POSITIVE PATIENT
A photograph of a male with HIV associated lipodystrophy syndrome, defective metabolism leading to fat maldistribution in patients infected with HIV and being treated with antiretroviral medications. Lipohypertrophy is characterized by the presence of a hypertrophied dorsocervical fat pad, circumferential expansion of the neck, breast enlargement, and abdominal visceral fat accumulation.
PET SCAN-AIDS
An image showing three positron emission tomography (PET) scans. Red and yellow areas correspond to areas of high metabolic activity. The top image shows the brain activity of a normal subject. The scan at the bottom left represents the reduced brain activity of a patient with HIV-induced dementia. It shows reduced brain activity in several brain regions. The scan at bottom right is from the same patient following treatment with azidothymidine (AZT), where the brain activity becomes closer to the normal.
phlebotomist performing a fingerprick for HIV test
A photograph of a phlebotomist performing a fingerprick, and collecting a blood specimen using a calibrated pipette with its disposable pipette tip. The specimen will be added directly to the reagent to be tested for the presence of HIV-1/HIV-2 specific antibodies.
CONJOINED TWINS
A two-year-old Indian girl born with four arms and four legs regained consciousness Thursday, wiggled her toes and smiled at her parents, 48 hours after massive surgery removed the extra limbs.
Lakshmi, who has been revered by some in her village as a reincarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess she was named for, is still in intensive care. But she is doing well as doctors slowly stop sedating her.spokeswoman, says the girl also moved her arms.
Doctors are planning to take the girl off a respirator later Thursday but are still monitoring her closely during the critical 72-hour period following the operation.
Lakshmi was born joined at the pelvis to a parasitic twin who stopped developing in her mother's womb.
The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped fetus.
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