Albany Med Pathology

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🔬Happy Monday, Twitterverse! We at the Path dept of AMC want to help educate residents and fellow learners alike to showcase the interesting world of pathology. We will strive to present an unknown case once at least every two weeks. Can you guess the diagnoses?🤔 #pathtwitter

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CD138 is correct! The population of plasma cells showed increased ratio of kappa to lambda cells.

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Case #14: for the hemepath-driven folks. This is a bone marrow biopsy. Based on what you see on the H&E, can you guess what the stain is? 🤔🔬 #hemepath #pathology #pathtwitter #medtwitter

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Stain is beta-catenin.

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Case #13: chest mass in a patient with history of breast carcinoma. What is the diagnosis? *Hint: the stain is a nuclear stain. 🔬🤔

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Answer: fibromatosis / desmoid tumor

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@isar4801 Positive 😉

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@rehdam S100 negative.

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@nucleololailo @kriyer68 ERG is negative!

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@MuhamadMustaf1 CD34 is negative.

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Answer: micropapillary urothelial carcinoma 👏🏼👏🏼

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Case #12: bladder tumor resection specimen. What is the diagnosis? 🤔🔬 #unknowns #PathTwitter #pathology #GUpath

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VZV (varicella zoster stain) was positive in this case!! 👏🏼👏🏼

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Case #11: hmmmMMM. I wonder what this skin biopsy from the upper back showed? Clinical DDx included bullous pemphigoid and allergic contact dermatitis. 🤔🔬#pathology #unknowns #PathTwitter #MedTwitter #dermpath

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This is classical Hodgkin lymphoma, and the four stains are: PAX5 (A), CD30 (B), CD15 (C), and EBER-ISH (D).

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Case #10: Classic case of a “classical” case 😉. What’s the diagnosis, and what are the four stains? (A, B, C, D) #unknowns #hemepath #pathology Case courtesy of @XiaoyanHuangMD1

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Thank you @HwajeongL for this great case! This was a case of granulomatous appendicitis due to delayed appendectomy. Definitely need to exclude bugs in this case, which was done. No bugs seen 🐛👍🏼

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Case #9: appendectomy specimen. Diagnosis? 🤔🔬 #pathology #unknowns #medtwitter #PathTwitter #GIpath

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This is merkel cell carcinoma! CK20 showed nice perinuclear dot-like pattern of staining in the lesional cells.

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Case #8: BCC, next case? What do you think? 🤔 #itsatrap #unknowns #pathtwitter #Dermpath #pathology

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Good morning everyone! This is called “granular (Paneth-like) change in the epididymal epithelium! Rare and benign! 👏🏼

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Case #7: Benign finding in the epididymus. What is this finding called? 🤔🔬 #beautyinthebenign #pathology #unknowns #MedTwitter