The pathologic reporting of endoscopic biopsy specimens with inflammatory bowel disease must convey an assessment of the disease activity and distribution. In addition, the pathologist must render an opinion on the presence or absence of dysplasia. Agreeing on the terminology is relatively easy. Agreeing on the morphologic presence or absence of dysplasia is another issue. [...]
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Answer: Babesia spp. Congratulations to all of my viewers who got this correct. Babesiosis is a tick-borne disease, found in North America, Europe, and Asia. It is a mimic of infection with Plasmodium falciparum (which was the 2nd most common answer that viewers gave), since the infected RBCs are not enlarged, the rings are small [...]
In the the current issue of Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, a team including Bette K. Kleinschmidt-DeMasters, MD authored an interesting article entitled Rare Nerve Lesions of Non-Nerve Sheath Origin: a 17-year Retrospective Series. DeMasters, neuropathology chief at the University of Colorado in Denver, and her team did a computer search of all peripheral [...]
A portion of clinical error results from the misinterpretation of laboratory data. Powsner et al reported that surgeons misunderstood 30% of pathology reports. Whether one communicates test results electronically, by fax, or on paper, one should periodically review the content and layout of the reports to make sure they are as useful as [...]
The following images are from a peripheral blood smear from a 93 year old male from Connecticut. No travel history is received.
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