Last week CSP leaders met with Legislators in Sacramento to support AB 2107 (Chen), CSP sponsored legislation that allows Pathologists to review digital data remotely under a primary location’s CLIA certificate. CA is the only state that doesn’t allow this practice.
The international consensus classification (ICC) is in the process of publishing a series of review articles on Virchow Archives to expand the updates on each topic for pathologists. This is the article on MDS. @SocforHemepath https://t.co/FWfsK8KGe0$
This week's #ucsfHCOW is a cervical lymph node bx from an elderly man who reports noticing enlarged axillary and cervical lymph nodes for the past several months.
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Our first #ucsfHCOW - #hemepath case of the week!
You are asked to review a peripheral smear from a middle-aged patient with no significant PMH. CBC shows Hb 8.7, WBC 32.5, platelets 41. The cells shown are ~30%.
We are in the process of adding more material to our website--including this excellent live microscopy session by Dr. Alejandro Gru @UVA_Pathology on the DDx and histologic features of primary cutaneous follicle center #lymphoma! #dermpath#VirtualPath https://t.co/p9T3KNdyN8
@ksticcoMD@AmeetRKini Knowing the clinical findings could help point towards the diagnosis: M protein, splenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, CBC, lytic lesions, etc.
WHO 2017 updates on BCR-ABL1-negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: New molecular associations (CSF3R, CALR) and further emphasis on the importance of bone marrow morphologic findings and clinical criteria for accurate #MPN diagnosis #hemepath
It’s time for more 2017 WHO updates!
TEMPI syndrome is a new provisional category, a type of paraneoplastic syndrome associated with a plasma cell neoplasm #hemepath#myeloma
Did you know...
...lupus panniculitis can closely mimic subcutaneous panniculitis-like T-cell lymphoma?
Overlapping features and important differences are shown, courtesy of @FlaviaRosadoMD#hemepath#dermpath