The College of American Pathologists (CAP) unveiled today new resources and features on MyBiopsy.org to help patients better understand their disease. Neuropathological diagnoses discussed on the site include: anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma, pilocytic astrocytoma, and oligodendroglioma. If one of your patients has questions about one of these pathological diagnoses, you can refer them to this website, [...]
The following peripheral blood film was obtained from a patient living in Missouri. Besides being an outdoorsman, he had traveled extensively in the past year, and visited many parts of Africa and Asia.
Answer: Amebic pneumonia; most likely due to Acanthamoeba spp. or Balamuthia mandrillaris.
This is a rare manifestation of disease with the free-living amebae. More commonly, Acanthamoeba spp. cause amebic keratitis – typically in contact lens wearers. However, this organism and B. mandrillaris can rarely gain access to the systemic circulation of immunocompromised (and occasionally immunocompetent) individuals [...]
A patient with recurrent high grade lymphoma on an extensive chemotherapeutic regimen presented with increasing shortness of breath and consolidation on chest radiograph. Antibiotic therapy was unsuccessful and she expired. Autopsy of the lungs showed the following on hematoxylin and eosin staining:
Answer: Clonorchis/Opisthorchis spp. eggs.
These 2 eggs are very difficult to tell apart and are usually grouped together, although the shoulders of the shouldered operculum may be more pronounced with Clonorchis eggs.
Announcement From the CAP Foundation:
January 15, 2010
Dear Colleagues,
All of us are reading and watching the devastating news and seeing the wrenching pictures from Haiti in the aftermath of the terrible earthquake earlier this week. As a physician, I read the news and looked at the images with grief, with shock, and with [...]
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