A 44 year-old male presents with a several-week history of progressive weakness and visual changes. His family has noted a personality change over the past few months. An MRI shows multifocal, non-enhancing lesions involving the cortical white matter. A biopsy of one of the lesions is shown here.
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People have been sending in photos of themselves in their Pathology Student t-shirts – and it’s so cool to see the shirt (and the people!) in such different places, doing different things. (more…)
I just realized that it’s been four years (and one day) since I started this blog! (more…)
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. (more…)
Q. Do you always see dysplasia in Barrett esophagus?
A. Good question! No, you don’t always see dysplasia. You worry about it, but most of the time you don’t see it. (more…)
I’ve started a couple new features and wanted you to be the first to know! Now there are two opportunities to get yummy pathology content delivered fresh, right to your email inbox. There are two separate email lists:
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2. Pathology Bites
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would send you a little yummy digestible boards-worthy pathology fact each day? Â And wouldn’t it be even nicer if there was a reference in there too, on the off chance that you had a little time or energy to read a bit more? Well, there you go: over on the right, there’s a box for that.
Let me know if this is working out for you, or if it’s not (so I can make it better).
Happy studying!
Q. I am having trouble differentiating between mild thalassemia and iron-deficiency anemia. (more…)
Q. In one of my other courses, the professor was discussing hemophilia. He states that the prothrombin time (PT) is normal, the partial thromboplastin time (PTT) is abnormal, the bleeding time is normal, and patients will not have petechiae. (more…)
We’re always looking for good internet resources for pathology. They are surprisingly uncommon; and often, the sources with excellent content have less-than-desirable interfaces. (more…)
Here’s a summary of those four pesky hypersensitivity reactions you will definitely be asked questions on at some point. (more…)
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