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• aorta
  18 October 2007

  Adj. aortic

• Mycobacterium avium intracellulare
  20 July 2007

  Mycobacterium Avium-Intracellulare Complex
  Definition: Mycobacterium avium (which includes three subspecies) and Mycobacterium intracellulare are separate species, but the infections they cause are so similar that they are simply referred to as Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex, or MAC.
  Images
  hepatic MAI infection
  https://twitter.com/GIPathologyURMC/status/765234005474181120
  Mycobacterium avium complex enteritis
  https://twitter.com/ARP_Press/status/852288984034287617 (...)

• hydatiform mole
  28 April 2004

  molar gestation; hydatiform moles WKP
  Images
  partial hydatiform mole by Ed Euthman
  complete hydatiform mole https://twitter.com/luishcruzc/status/738155933801418752 https://twitter.com/KUSAURAP/status/778827207976230916
  Definition: Hydatiform mole is a gestational trophoblastic disorder.
  Accurate diagnosis and classification of hydatidiform mole (HM) are important because the risk of persistent gestational trophoblastic disease, including choriocarcinoma, is significantly (...)

• acute appendicitis
  2 September 2004

  Digital cases
  HPC:25 : acute appendicitis
  HPC:94 : acute appendicitis
  HPC:368 : Granulation tissue after acute appendicitis
  Videos
  Acute appendicitis (by Washington Deceit)
  Peri-appendiceal abscess (by Washington Deceit)
  Laparoscopic appendicectomy
  See also
  appendicectomy (videos)
  References
  Lamps LW. Appendicitis and infections of the appendix. Semin Diagn Pathol. 2004 May;21(2):86-97. PMID: #15807469#
  References
  Minimal added value of further blocks in negative (...)

• embryonal carcinoma
  8 November 2004

  WP
  Definition: Embryonal carcinoma is relatively common among testicular germ cell tumors, where 10% are pure embryonal carcinomas and even more have it as a component of a mixed germ cell tumor. For unknown reasons, embryonal carcinoma is rare among ovarian germ cell tumors.
  Images
  Macroscopy https://twitter.com/smlungpathguy/status/724787493422288896
  Microscopy https://twitter.com/BellaMicheleang/status/854359563679797248
  Embryonal carcinoma is relatively common among (...)

• Hirschsprung disease
  6 October 2003

  Hirschsprung’s disease, congenital intestinal aganglionosis, digestive aganglionnosis; digestive aganglionoses PO1 PO2
  Definition: Aganglionic megacolon is associated with congenital absence of intrinsic ganglion cells in the myenteric (Auerbach) and submucosal (Meissner) plexuses of the gastrointestinal tract. The disorder is genetically heterogeneous.
  Digital cases
  HPC:90 : rectal mucosa biopsies
  HPC:98 : rectal mucosa biopsies
  HPC:151 : Hirschsprung disease - Rectal (...)

• ovarian cysts
  2 September 2003

  Benign Cystic Lesions of the Ovary, ovarian benign cystic lesions ; ovarian cysts ; cystic ovaries ; cystic ovary RPD
  Definition: An ovarian cyst is any collection of fluid, surrounded by a very thin wall, within an ovary.
  Most ovarian cysts are functional in nature and harmless (benign). In the US, ovarian cysts are found in nearly all premenopausal women, and in up to 14.8% of postmenopausal women.
  Images
  polycystic ovary (...)

• hepatoblastoma
  16 March 2004

  hepatoblastomas
  Definition: Hepatoblastoma is a malignant embryonal liver tumor that occurs almost exclusively in infants and very young children.
  Image
  Macroscopy : https://twitter.com/DraEosina/status/762631086207893506
  Cytology: https://twitter.com/AdamGomezMD/status/720632495671087104
  https://twitter.com/MArnold_PedPath/status/736000944303808512
  Hepatoblastoma is composed of epithelial and mesenchymal elements in varying proportions and at various stages of differentiation. The (...)

• necrosis
  9 November 2004

  tissular death

• acute inflammation
  1 June 2004

  Digital cases
  Case 25 (HPC:25) : Acute appendicitis
  Case 94 (HPC:94) : Acute appendicitis
  Case 13 (HPC:13) : Acute synovitis
  Definition: Acute inflammation is a rapid response to an injurious agent that serves to deliver mediators of host defense-leukocytes and plasma proteins-to the site of injury.
  Types - Lesional patterns
  acute inflammation
  congestive inflammation
  cellular acute inflammation
  suppurative inflammation / suppuration
  abcess / abcesses / abcedation (...)

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