Chronic diarrhea. Prolonged workup negative. Push enteroscopy = normal. Random biopsy from duodenum below: we have an answer!!! Low power diagnosis. #GIPath#GITwitter#MedEd#MedTwitter
Morphology Monday: 40ish y/o man with shoulder pain and mass involving the proximal humerus (mid metaphysis and extending to epiphysis). No lymphadenopathy or other lesions on PET. what’s your DX? #hemepath#PathTwitter#lymsm
I put this together a few years ago for a local induction guide that's distributed to our first year Histopatholgy registrars.
Summary of commonly used #specialstains in #pathology
Focal nodular hyperplasia
💡Benign
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🔪Well-defined, subcapsular, tan to pale red, some w/ central scar, usually solitary
🔬💜Normal hepatocytes, ductopenia, bile ductular reaction in fibrous bands, resembles cirrhosis
🔬💙Glutaminase synthetase +
#GPOW#beardedPA#UofCPath
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Part of a series for Seminars in Diag #Pathology
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15 yo f presented to ED w/acute onset of RLQ abd pain. CT scan revealed an incidental 14 cm heterogenous mass in the right lobe of the liver. Case by Caroline Bsirini MD, Karen Vanderbilt BS, Lee Ann Hellman PA (ASCP),
Michael G. Drage MD, PhD, #Liverpath https://t.co/NSd6y4drwk
24 year-old man with headache and gait ataxia was found to have a cerebellar mass. Diagnosis? (Hint: you might also want to sequence this guy's germline DNA.)
- Most common site - fundus/body
Histologic features:
- Superficial mucosal necrosis
- fibrinoid/eosinophilic vascular degeneration
- microthrombi
- Fibrinoid vascular necrosis and microthrombi can be highlighted by CD61
#GIpath
Adenomyoepithelioma of the breast 🌼:
Mostly benign
Biphasic
Considered a variant of intraductal papilloma due to papillary configuration
3 variants: tubular, spindle, lobular
#breastpath
Citation: https://t.co/eF37GZfhzb