Disease localization

Articles

• ovarian endometriosis
  6 July 2007

  ovarian endometriosis (endometrioma of the ovary)
  Images
  Ovarian endometriosis. Note the hemosiderin-laden macrophages. IHC: CD10 highlights the endometrial stroma. https://twitter.com/otromicroscopio/status/775287299026345984
  Synopsis
  Endometriosis, or endometrioma, of the ovary may cause an adnexal mass in reproductive age females.
  Pigmented foci on an otherwise normal ovary or a large solitary hemor-rhagic cyst are the gross findings.
  Microscopy
  Histologic findings include (...)

• HHV6-associated hepatitis
  9 November 2005

  Synopsis
  severe liver dysfunction
  drowsiness
  fulminant hepatic failure
  microvesicular steatosis (resembling that of Reye syndrome)
  human herpesvirus-6 variant B (HHV-6B) DNA in liver tissue by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and in the endothelium of the portal vein by in situ hybridization (ISH).
  References
  Aita K, Jin Y, Irie H, Takahashi I, Kobori K, Nakasato Y, Kodama H, Yanagawa Y, Yoshikawa T, Shiga J. Are there histopathologic characteristics particular to fulminant (...)

• mamamry coccidioidomycosis
  5 July 2012

  Digital case
  JRC:5152 : Coccidioidomycosis in lactating breast.
  See also
  coccidioidomycosis

• vulvar Paget disease
  20 June 2007

  Video
  Vulvar Paget disease (by Washington Deceit)
  See also
  cutaneous Paget disease

• gastric GVHD
  27 January 2005

  Definition: A graft versus host disease (GVHD) follows allogeneic bone marrow transplant or transfusions, especially in immunocompromised patients.
  Images
  Stomach biopsy: graft-versus-host-disease
  https://twitter.com/AdamGomezMD/status/804038505412202497
  Upper gastrointestinal GVHD precedes lower gastrointestinal GVHD.
  Patients with isolated gastric GVHD present with nausea, vomiting,and upper abdominal pain without diarrhea.
  Early, the stomach appears endoscopically normal; 30% to (...)

• CMV hepatitis
  8 December 2004

  Definition: CMV is the most important cause of opportunistic hepatitis in immunocompromised patients. 20% of patients with liver allograft develop CMV hepatitis.
  Images
  CMV inclusion in a portal space
  https://twitter.com/liverpath/status/818267259944767488
  Synopsis
  cytomegalic cytopathic effects
  enlarged cells
  cytomegalic nuclear inclusions
  large, glassy masses in the nucleus, separated by a clear halo from the irregularly thickened nuclear membrane
  cytomegalic cytoplasmic (...)

• pulmonary helminthiasis
  7 December 2005

  Exemples
  pulmonary hydatid cysts (pulmonary echinococcosis)
  See also
  parasitic infections helminthiases

• cardiac glycogen storage disease
  24 July 2007

  cardiac GSDs, cardiac glycogenosis

• hepatic hemangiomatosis
  4 February 2005
• Crohn colitis
  17 March 2004

  colonic Crohn disease

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