Q. I need help with this question from Robbins: 15 year old boy with fever of 10 days.
Why was plasmodium falciparum named that way?
So we had this lecture on malaria on Thursday, and I decided that we needed a little object lesson to go along with it.
Parvovirus infection in pregnancy
Q. While doing some reproductive medicine practice questions in a boards question bank I came across one I couldn’t reason through and was hoping you could help:
A simple summary of glomerulonephritis
I’ve had a lot of emails about glomerulonephritis lately. Most people seem to want help simplifying the mechanisms and types of glomerular diseases
How do renal diseases present?
I’ve had quite a few questions about renal pathology lately. Some of you want to know how to differentiate renal diseases clinically (is it glomerular? or tubulointerstitial?)
Best Pathology Student quizzes
In case you’re feeling ambitious tonight (or, more likely, in a few days), here’s a list of our best Pathology Student quizzes.
BOOP
Q. I wonder if you could help me a bit with an unusual case of pneumonia. Our patient is a 56-year-old male with who woke up one morning with dyspnea, fever and chest pain.
Giant multinucleated cells
There are a bunch of different kinds of big, multinucleated cells in pathology. Here’s a question that you can use to test your knowledge of these cells.
Help! I’m starting pathology tomorrow.
Tomorrow is the first day of school for a lot of medical, dental, nursing, physician assistant, medical technology, veterinary, and other allied health students. I hope I didn’t miss anyone.
Why don’t you get sensitized with a PPD?
Q. I had a question about PPD (Mantoux test). I read your hypersensitivity path bites and posts explaining the different types and examples of hypersensitivity.
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