Our Pathology program has set up the curriculum so that we do three-month block rotations during our second year of training. I just finished my three-month intense hematopathology rotation and really enjoyed it. I’m psyched about doing more of it and I hope to do a fellowship.
In the midst of talking about career choices with [...]
Sorry for the delay in following up with my case! It was a good initial presentation of chronic myelogenous leukemia, chronic phase.
So, to start off with, the 5% “unclassified cells” were myeloid blasts without Auer rods. In addition, the peripheral smear shows mostly granulocytes in varying stages of maturation. The mature bands and neutrophils do [...]
I am officially well into my PGY-2 year and my current rotation is Hemepath for 3 months. It’s been a bit of a shift from the mentality of Surgical Pathology, but the workflow is similar to that other, “foreign” world. I enjoy the types of cases we get to work up and actually have found [...]
A couple of weeks ago I posted a case of a 21-year-old young woman who presented with acute liver failure and hemolytic anemia. As suggested by one of the emails we received, this young lady had Wilson’s disease and the combination of liver failure and hemolytic anemia is a giveaway presentation of this rare disease.
In [...]
Hello, all! It’s my privilege to begin posting on this blog – I’m a first-year anatomic pathology/clinical pathology resident at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and hopefully you’ll find some use out of my contributions to this multi-author blog! I hope to share interesting cases that find their way into my training, blog [...]
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 of [...]
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