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 [...]
www.oncopathology.blogspot.com 1) Molecular profiling may help determine patient’s response to cancer therapies, research suggests. A pilot study of molecular profiling of tumors, helped to identify therapies that ultimately had an impact on the disease.The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center are “striving to profile individual tumors so that [...]
Global Digital Pathology Leader Further Expands Its Patents Portfolio Enabling New Forms of Image Query Vista, CA – April 28, 2009 – Aperio Technologies, Inc., (Aperio), a global leader in digital pathology for the healthcare and life sciences industry, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company patent No. [...]
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 [...]
www.oncopathology.blogspot.com Sentinel lymph node mapping is now performed on selected patients who opt for conservative surgery to treat their breast cancer. The procedure involves the surgical identification of those axillary lymph nodes that theoretically would be the first ‘‘sentinel’’ nodes to receive the lymphatic drainage from the breast harboring the invasive cancer. If these nodes [...]
Another Arthropod case – Argghhh! The following was removed from the big toe of a tourist who just returned from vacation in Mexico. During his vacation, he spent a lot of time walking barefoot on the beach. Diagnosis?
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