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• 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 (...)

• gonadoblastoma
  11 March 2004

  Scully RE, 1953.

• Wilson disease
  30 May 2003

  Wilson’s disease

• thyroid follicular adenoma
  14 December 2005

  Definition: A benign, encapsulated tumour of the thyroid showing evidence of follicular differentiation.
  Images
  Wikimedia : Follicular adenoma
  Digital cases (Digital slides)
  HPC:395 : Thyroid follicular adenoma with papillary epithelial hyperplasia.
  JRC:2612 : Thyroid atypical follicular adenoma, thyroid Spindle cell and follicular neoplasm.
  JRC:14584 : Thyroid follicular adenoma, clear cell type.
  JRC:15430 : Thyroid follicular adenoma (with pseudoclear).
  Follicular adenoma is (...)

• necrosis
  9 November 2004

  tissular death

• colorectal adenoma
  12 May 2004

  colorectal adenomas
  Definition: Adenomas, the benign glandular neoplasms that precede colon cancer development, originate from the intestinal epithelium. They occur singly or multiply. When multiple, the patients may have a genetic predisposition syndrome for colorectal cancer.
  See also : colorectal adenoma with adenocarcinoma
  Endoscopy
  Small (< 5 mm) colorectal polyps commonly affect individuals older than 50 years of age and adenomas account for 60% to 66% ofthese small lesions. (...)

• congenital pulmonary airway malformation
  18 December 2003

  CCAM, CAM, congenital cystic adenomatoid malformations, CPAMs; congenital pulmonary airway malformations; Lung Cystic adenomatoid transformation. Ent. 1897, Nom. 2002
  Digital cases (Digital slides)
  HPC:104 : CPAM type 2
  HPC:370 : Cystic congenital adenomatoid malformation in extrapulmonary sequestration.
  JRC:6291 : Lung cystic adenomatoid transformation.
  JRC:6292 : Lung cystic adenomatoid transformation.
  JRC:6298 : Lung cystic adenomatoid transformation.
  Definition: CPAM is a (...)

• caseous necrosis
  16 September 2005

  Caseous necrosis is a distinctive form of coagulative necrosis, is encountered most often in foci of tuberculous infection.
  The term caseous is derived from the cheesy white gross appearance of the area of necrosis.
  On microscopic examination, the necrotic focus appears as amorphous granular debris seemingly composed of fragmented, coagulated cells and amorphous granular debris enclosed within a distinctive inflammatory border known as a granulomatous reaction. Unlike coagulative (...)

• rhabdomyosarcomas
  25 November 2003

  Definition: Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft-tissue sarcoma of childhood. Rhabdomyosarcoma is a soft tissue tumor of striated muscle origin. It is observed mainly in children and adolescents.
  Images
  Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. PCR: pos PAX3-FOXO1 (worse prognosis c/w PAX7). Scattered MNGC rhabdomyoblasts.
  https://twitter.com/histiocytosisX/status/699599913013923840
  ARMS : focal desmin w/ diffuse myogenin in A-RMS (PCR + PAX3-FOXO1) (...)

• endometrial polyp
  17 November 2004

  Clinical synopsis
  asymptomatic or associated with bleeding
  associated with tamoxifen therapy for breast cancer
  Macroscopy synopsis
  sessile or pedunculated mass
  cystically dilated glands
  multicystic cut surface
  Microscopy synopsis
  endometrial glands unresponsive to progesterone stimulation
  may have severe atypia
  fibrous stroma with spindled
  fibroblast-like cells
  abundant extracellular connective tissue
  polypoid shape
  attenuated surface endometrium on 3 sides (...)

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