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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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How do antinuclear antibodies cause problems in lupus?

on April 29, 2013

Okay, so we know that antinuclear antibodies are seen in many different autoimmune diseases (including lupus).

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FANA

Fluorescent antinuclear antibody (FANA) testing

on April 22, 2013

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem, autoimmune disease.

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Unknown case 9

Can you solve this case?

on March 27, 2013

Here’s a case that many a first-year pathology resident has missed. Once.

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Unknown case

Can you solve this case?

on March 14, 2013

Today we’ll do another little unknown case. You can find our other cases here:

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Unknown case

Can you solve this case?

on February 27, 2013

People seem to like unknown cases! So I’ll continue adding to our little collection.

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Unknown case 6

Can you solve this case?

on February 10, 2013

Here is another case in our growing collection of unknown cases (you can find other cases here, here, here, here and here).

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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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AML

How do you tell apart myeloblasts from lymphoblasts?

on December 23, 2012

Q. Can you tell me the morphological features of AML M0 and M1 blasts versus ALL blasts to differentiate the two? 

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Hand 1

Marfan syndrome, my uncle, and Abraham Lincoln

on December 17, 2012

I have an uncle with Marfan syndrome, and he was kind enough to let me take a couple photos to show some little hand tests you can do to check for Marfan syndrome.

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