Q. I need help with this question from Robbins: 15 year old boy with fever of 10 days.
Okay, so we know that antinuclear antibodies are seen in many different autoimmune diseases (including lupus).
Here’s another unknown case in our small-but-growing collection (you can find other cases here, here, here and here).
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you have a safe and fun New Year’s Eve…and a peaceful and happy 2013.
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.
Myelodysplasia (MDS) is often thought of as “pre-leukemia.” Which is kind of misleading, because only some cases of MDS go on to become leukemia; others stay the same and never progress.
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?”
Here’s a long term: leukoerythroblastotic reaction. Despite its length, it’s a pretty good term, because it describes a reactive condition in which you see young red cells (erythroblasts) and young white cells (leuko-) out in the peripheral blood.
One thing that’s hard to get the hang of in pathology is the difference in appearance between chronic and acute inflammation in tissue sections.
We talk a lot about strokes in a clinical way in medical school. We discuss which areas of the brain are involved, and we correlate the areas damaged with the patient’s symptoms.
