Disease

Articles

• chemotherapy-induced toxic leukoencephalopathy
  6 March 2004

  Synopsis
  white matter: toxic leukoencephalopathy severe myelin pallor edema prominent macrophage infiltrate
  References
  Moore-Maxwell CA, Datto MB, Hulette CM. Chemotherapy-induced toxic leukoencephalopathy causes a wide range of symptoms: a series of four autopsies. Mod Pathol. 2004 Feb;17(2):241-7. PMID: #14704718#

• visceral leishmaniasis
  15 October 2003

  Kala-azar

• tuberous sclerosis
  15 December 2003

  Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), Bourneville tuberous sclerosis

• cerebral capillary malformation
  26 November 2003

  Cerebral cavernous angioma, cerebral cavernous hemangioma, CCM, cerebral cavernoma, cerebral cavernous malformation

• Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome
  27 November 2004

  Definition: Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome (BHD) is a dominantly inherited predisposition for development of fibrofolliculomas, trichodiscomas, and acrochordons, and concurrent internal tumors, such as colonic polyps and renal carcinoma.
  Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome (BHD) is caused by mutation in the gene FLCN encoding folliculin (MIM.607273)
  Synopsis
  pulmonary lesions
  pulmonary cysts (pulmonary basilar cysts - pulmonary cysts of the Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome)
  pleuropulmonary blebs
  spontaneous (...)

• infantile myofibromatosis
  9 February 2006

  Definition: Infantile myofibromatosisis is defined by the presence of multiple infantile myofibromas. Infantile myofibromatosis is a term coined by Chung and Enzinger.
  It exclusively affects infants and young children, with 60% of cases noted at birth or shortly thereafter and more than 80% occurring before the age of 2 years.
  Infantile myofibromatosis is one of the most commonly occurring tumors of the neonatal period, presenting in both solitary and multicentric forms.
  Most solitary (...)

• asthma
  12 November 2003

  Definition: Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that affects children and adults. Genetic predisposition and environmental factors interact to produce the disease.
  Images
  Asthma; airway parietal edema , smooth muscle hyperplasia , mucus gland hyperplasia
  https://twitter.com/H_Elshoni/status/747268830955593729
  Types
  acute asthma
  chronic asthma
  Synopsis
  mucus plugs
  mucosal eosinophilic infiltrate
  mucosal basement membrane thickening with sunmembranous collagen (...)

• cobalamin deficiency type C
  14 March 2011

  cobalamin C disease; cobalamin deficiency type cblC with homocystinuria (MMACHC)

• polycystic ovary disease
  31 January 2006

  PCOS, Stein-Leventhal syndrome, polycystic ovarian diseases, polycystic ovary syndrome, PCO PO
  Images
  polycystic ovary https://twitter.com/RhondaYantiss/status/840977594338201600
  Macroscopy
  large ovaries (2x normal),
  numerous subcortical cysts (“cysts” may be immature follicles )
  numerous small peripheral follicles
  enlarged ovary is pearly white,
  multiple cysts are visible beneath the ovarian surface
  Microscopy
  multiple cystic follicles covered by a dense fibrous (...)

• pilomatricomatosis
  22 November 2004

  Multiple familial pilomatricomas, pilomatrixomata

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