Microscopy

Articles

• foamy macrophages
  24 October 2003

  spumous macrophages, foamy macrophages, foam cells; lipid-laden histiocytes, foamy histiocytes; lipid-laden macrophages; foamy histiocyte; foamy histiocytes; xanthomatous histiocytes
  Definition: Histiocytes that are laden with lipid (predominantly cholesterol ), and that have differentiated from circulating monocytes.
  Images
  foamy macrophages in lung; amiodarone exposure
  https://twitter.com/smlungpathguy/status/715529010176999424
  In tumors
  giant cell tumor of tendinous sheath (...)

• necrosis
  9 November 2004

  tissular death

• 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 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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• Cryptococcus neoformans
  29 August 2005

  Torula histolytica
  Definition: Cryptococcus neoformans (formerly known as Torula histolytica) is an encapsulated yeast-like fungus found in dried avian (particularly pigeon) and bat excreta, and in dust contaminated with such droppings.
  Images
  Cryptococcus disseminated to lung, spleen, kidney, thyroid.
  https://twitter.com/JMGardnerMD/status/866107567046610945
  granuloma with Cryptococcus neoformans
  https://twitter.com/smlungpathguy/status/877392725959749632
  Digital cases
  HPC:62 (...)

• 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 (...)

• granulomatous colitis
  18 October 2004

  Etiology (exemples)
  Crohn disease
  tuberculous enterocolitis
  digestive CGD (chronic granulomatous disease)
  Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
  See also
  granulomatoses digestive granulomatoses

• mammary fibroadenoma
  18 January 2005

  breast fibroadenoma, Benign cystosarcoma phyllodes, Cellular fibroadenoma, Cellular adenofibroma, Fetal fibroadenoma, Juvenile adenofibroma; mammary fibroadenoma PO Webpathology BP
  Definition : The mammary fibroadenoma is a benign mammary biphasic tumor with epithelial and stromal components.
  It is a benign breast lesion that result from hyperplasia of the normal lobules.
  It is a circumscribed, often large, breast mass usually occuring in adolescent females with stromal and (...)

• juvenile nephronophthisis
  27 October 2003

  Nephronophthisis comprises a group of autosomal recessive cystic kidney diseases, which constitute the most frequent genetic cause for end-stage renal failure in children and young adults.
  Synopsis
  medullary cystic disease renal medullary cysts renal corticomedullary cysts renal interstitial fibrosis renal tubular atrophy relatively spared glomeruli
  nephronophthisis-associated hepatic disease nephronophthisis-associated congenital hepatic fibrosis hepatic fibrosis
  Variants (...)

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