Q. I need help with this question from Robbins: 15 year old boy with fever of 10 days.
So we had this lecture on malaria on Thursday, and I decided that we needed a little object lesson to go along with it.
Q. I wanted to check a fact with you because my friend and I were confused by something in First Aid, and it wasn’t listed in one of the errata for the new edition.
Okay, so we know that antinuclear antibodies are seen in many different autoimmune diseases (including lupus).
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you have a safe and fun New Year’s Eve…and a peaceful and happy 2013.
Q. Can you tell me the morphological features of AML M0 and M1 blasts versus ALL blasts to differentiate the two?
Here’s another case in our series of unknowns (the last one is here). This is the type of thing you might see in an unknown slide set if you were a pathology resident,
I’m super excited about my new study guide, which will be available on Monday. It’s a collection of all of our best Pathology Student stuff on hematopathology and coagulation.
Q. How do you tell apart aplastic anemia and pancytopenia? A. This is an interesting question, because we’re comparing a distinct disease (aplastic anemia) with a generalized blood finding (pancytopenia).
Q. A question: why do you call a tumor “well-differentiated” when actually it is the LEAST different from the tissue of origin? Shouldn’t it be “low differentiated?”
