Microscopy

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• 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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• necrosis
  9 November 2004

  tissular death

• 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 (...)

• 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 (...)

• thrombotic microangiopathy
  15 April 2005

  thrombotic microangiopathies, Moschkowitz syndrome, TMA

• focal nodular hyperplasia
  29 May 2003

  focal nodular hyperplasia of the liver, hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia, FNH (previous denomination: benign hepatoma, solitary hyperplastic nodule, focal sclerosis, hamartomatous cholangiohepatoma, mixed adenoma)

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