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I am a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and am currently a pathologist in Dallas, Texas. My main professional interests are cytopathology and gynecological surgical pathology. I am one of the co-founders of pathtalk.org. If you've got an idea for a project and are interested in collaborating, please feel free to contact me. |
Clinical history A 66-year-old woman presented with a solitary lung mass. Imaging characteristics were suggestive of malignancy. A wedge resection of lung was performed. Pathological Findings Gross examination of the wedge resection specimen showed a three-centimeter well-circumscribed, grey-white friable mass with central necrosis. The mass was sampled for frozen and permanent sections. Microscopic examination revealed [...]
Bonnie Bassler from Princeton’s Department of Molecular Biology spoke at a recent TED conference on mechanisms of bacterial communication. She explained her group’s discovery that bacteria commnuicate with one another using special “quorum-sensing” molecules which allow them to act in unison, much as the cells in a multicellular organism do. Their discoveries allow for some [...]
A team at the NYU School of Medicine’s Division of Educational Informatics has created a brilliant implementation of a virtual slide viewer using the Google Maps API. They are using their viewer to view digital slides acquired using Bacus and Aperio slide scanners. In my opinion, this is superior in some ways to the viewers [...]
Clinical history A 35-year-old man presented with multiple painful ulcerations on his hard palate.
Clinical History and Pathological Findings An elderly woman presented with mild anemia and was found to have a positive fecal occult blood test and a positive serum anti-H. pylori IgG antibody test. Endoscopy was performed, and several superficial gastric and duodenal ulcers were biopsied. B-cell IgH PCR revealed a clonal B-cell population, and the diagnosis [...]
One of my colleagues just pointed out this interesting post from the New York Times Well Blog. It’s a commentary on a recent paper published in the journal Radiology which followed cortisol levels of women waiting for breast biopsy results. Predictably, they found that waiting and uncertainty was correlated with higher cortisol levels. From the [...]
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