57 Medical Photos That Even Professionals Find Astonishing (New Pics)

"Eric Moger, at 62 years old had recently gotten engaged and was satisfied with where his life was going. Little did he know, life would take an unexpected turn with one trip to the doctor.
While undergoing surgery to remove nasal polyps the doctors had found a tumor the size of a tennis ball, in the left side of his face. Upon waking up, Moger would soon learn his fate.
Shortly after the first surgery, Moger would undergo the second surgery that would remove his tumor and ultimately most of the left side of his face.
During recovery he experienced depression and loss of self-esteem. He would attempt multiple surgeries to fix the gaping hole, although nothing would work. He began to lose hope.
That is until 3D printing technology was brought to his attention. Another surgeon would 3D print a prosthetic mask and a mouth implant that would allow him to speak and eat, without issue. Moger now is happily married and cancer free."

After losing both legs in a car accident at age 4, she had no access to prosthetics in her rural village in Yunnan, China. Her family improvised, cutting a basketball in half to help her move around.
By age 10, Qian had learned to walk using her hands and the basketball for balance. Locals nicknamed her “Basketball Girl.” Her story gained national attention in 2005, leading to free medical care and prosthetic limbs from the China Rehabilitation Research Center.
She later received larger limbs as she grew. But by age 11, her treatment ended—and she could no longer attend school due to financial hardship.
Qian’s story highlights global disparities in healthcare access, and the extraordinary will to survive.

It turns out that he was st*bbed years ago, and the wound was stitched without a deep examination. Since then, he had lived normally with no special symptoms—until the wound began to bleed, and the hidden blade was revealed in an X-ray.
The blade was surgically removed, the patient recovered, and he was discharged within a few days.

A surgeon removes the middle part of your leg, including the tumor. Your lower leg is reattached at your thigh, but rotated 180 degrees. Your ankle joint functions as your new knee joint. You wear a prosthesis, or artificial limb.

Large lesions are seen on the ilium on the more distant side. Involvement of the vertebral column has caused a compression fracture.

They are present in neonates or infants but they may also be present prenatally and at birth they may become large enough to cause obstructed labor.

Some general info on my situation. Had developed on and off pain in my left leg/hip for years till it got so bad I couldn't put my full weight on it, which is when I got in for the first image showing an MRI slice of the dead hip. Eventually I was able to get the hip arthroplasty done. I awoke in recovery with my leg flat on the bed. I complained to the initial Nurse's & PT people that it felt weird & shorter than it should be. The Drs and surgeon said normally patients felt it was longer, but it felt shorter to me and those initial people after the surgery told me that what I felt was "normal"... I figured I just had a hip replacement & it'd be painful... ~1.5 months later they did a Xray & well, that's why I couldn't walk like I'd read I should have been able too. Anteriorly dislocated the whole time. I kept bringing it up about it feeling weird with the med related people I was seeing... I suppose I was a bit stoic & didn't give the right number of the pain that I felt. Just thought they knew better than me. I feel like I have a permanent muscle knot at this point.

The nail undergoes thickening, elongation and increased curvature and has an unusual yellow-brown, opaque appearance resembling a ram's horn.

Patient presented to clinic approximately 3 days into a flareup of gout. 55 ccs of fluid were pulled off and uric acid crystals could be seen in the aspirate. For context, synovial fluid is normally transparent and yellow.

Blood separates into layers because its components—plasma, red blood cells, and white blood cells and platelets—have different densities. When blood is no longer in motion, gravity causes the heavier, denser components, such as red blood cells, to settle to the bottom, while the lighter components, like plasma, remain at the top. This process can also be accelerated by using a centrifuge to spin the blood sample at high speeds, applying centrifugal force to separate the layers based on density.

In 2022 my toddler was misdiagnosed by a GP and prescribed penicillin while she had Epstein-Barr. Freak once off mistake that left her whole body looking like this.

Acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on the pituitary gland that produces excess amounts of growth hormones. The differences in your body can take years to become noticeable (bigger hands, feet, facial features, etc.) and you can really see the difference in old pictures. Other issues include joint pain, diabetes, enlarged heart, sinus issues and colon polyps.
And ps, the new picture was purely for me cracking up with his hair sticking up and he didn’t know why!

This is a condition in which the heart muscle becomes thick, especially of the ventricles, which is seen very clearly in this picture.
The average left ventricular wall thickness in normal adults is 1.1 cm, but there are exceptions. Trained athletes have hearts that have left ventricular mass up to 60% greater than untrained subjects, with an average left ventricular wall thickness of 1.3 cm...