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My name is Kristine Krafts, MD, and I love teaching pathology.
If you’re looking for straightforward answers to your pathology questions,
you’ve come to the right place!
What does “differentiation” mean?
I have googled this thing to death and I still don’t understand what “differentiation” means.
Do all leukemias arise from hematopoietic stem cells?
Or can they also arise from cells that are farther along in development?
Tumor invasion and metastasis: are they the same thing?
To call a tumor malignant, doesn’t it have to be invasive?
What the H is HLH?
What causes hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis? Who gets it? And how do you diagnose it? All this and more in Michelle Stoffel’s latest post.
Why is endodermal sinus tumor named that way?
Does the tumor really come from the yolk sac, and if so, why put “sinus” in the name?
A 69 year-old male with diarrhea
A 69-year-old male, status post abdominal surgery, presents to clinic one day after discharge with profuse, watery diarrhea.
How to tell apart monoblasts and promonocytes
How do you tell the difference between a monoblast and a promonocyte? The difference is as simple and as beautiful as folded tissue paper.
A 40 year-old female with respiratory distress
A 40-year-old obese woman with a recent minor knee injury presents to the ER with lightheadedness and respiratory distress.
More student questions on heme
Here are some great questions from my students on everything from spherocytes to Auer rods.