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percentage

Why you need to look at absolute numbers (not just percentages) of white cells

on May 20, 2013

Q. I need help with this question from Robbins: 15 year old boy with fever of 10 days.

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Gametocyte

Why was plasmodium falciparum named that way?

on May 11, 2013

So we had this lecture on malaria on Thursday, and I decided that we needed a little object lesson to go along with it.

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fetus

Parvovirus infection in pregnancy

on April 17, 2013

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:

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Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis

A simple summary of glomerulonephritis

on January 29, 2013

I’ve had a lot of emails about glomerulonephritis lately. Most people seem to want help simplifying the mechanisms and types of glomerular diseases

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Urine

How do renal diseases present?

on January 22, 2013

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?)

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pencil

Best Pathology Student quizzes

on December 31, 2012

In case you’re feeling ambitious tonight (or, more likely, in a few days), here’s a list of our best Pathology Student quizzes.

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BOOP

BOOP

on October 11, 2012

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.

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Langhans

Giant multinucleated cells

on September 9, 2012

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.

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the scream

Help! I’m starting pathology tomorrow.

on September 3, 2012

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.

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Mantoux

Why don’t you get sensitized with a PPD?

on August 21, 2012

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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