Below, you’ll find a list of links to some excellent Pathology-related websites from professional organizations, to study cases, to blogs. These are all sites that I’ve found useful over the past three years as a resident at Albany Medical Center, and, hopefully, they can be of use to you as well!
A couple “smiley” faces from a bone marrow we reviewed a few months ago. I haven’t posted in a while, but promise to publish a couple interesting cases soon!
Last month I was in a post office standing in a particularly long line for that location. The line eventually extended beyond the lobby and outside the doors. The delay seemed to stem from the fact that this was between 12 and 1 PM when there were several customers and only 1 staff member during [...]
While I don’t usually write about my personal health, I was recently asked about health care reform during a discussion at the American Pathology Foundation meeting recently in Las Vegas. While the discussion centered on the main issue – not a full reform of the current healthcare system but rather insurance reform, it prompted me [...]
I recently did a brain autopsy on a 70-year-old woman who died from an intraparenchymal brain hemorrhage after a seven-year history of progressive dementia. The gross photograph follows: I know what you’re thinking: an amyloid angiopathic bleed, or perhaps a hypertensive bleed, in a patient with Alzheimer disease. That’s what I was thinking until I [...]
High Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia (HGPIN): Common questions asked about HGPIN are : -How do we as pathologists make these diagnoses? -What do they mean for the patient in terms of cancer risk? -What is/are the optimal strategies for follow-up so that if cancer does eventually develop it is caught at an early, curable stage? [...]
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