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!
The following was ‘passed’ in the stool of an otherwise asymptomatic 50 year old woman. (images courtesy of Dr. Washington Winn, Fletcher Allen Health Care, VT) Identification?
Answer: Rhinosporidiosis (infection with Rhinosporidium seeberi) Congratulations to Anonymous (x 3!), Kenneth, Chris, Victor, and Santoshpath who all got this correct! The keys to the diagnosis is the clinical history (location in nasal mucosa), exposure history (India), and histopathologic features of a polypoid mass containing mature sporangia (large, thick-walled spherical structures) and smaller internal sporangiospores [...]
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