Saturday, June 12, 2010

2010 AANP Diagnostic Slide Session diagnoses revealed

For those of you who missed this evening's diagnostic slide session, here are the diagnoses that were ultimately revealed:

1. Phosphaturic mesenchymal tumor, mixed connective tissue variant
2. Primary Solitary Amyloidoma
3. CNS parenchymal involvement by Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease
4. Teratoma with malignant transformation
5. Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy with Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome
6. Varicella Zoster Virus meningitis with intraparenchyal hemorrhage
7. Aneurysmal hemorrhage due to isolated intracranial giant cell arteritis
8. Canine distemper viral encephalitis in a Bengal tiger
9. Feline spinal cord leukomyelopathy secondary to consumption of irradiated dry food diet
10. Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis (Weston Hurst disease)
11. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin proteasome system inclusions (FTLD-UPS) with cerebellar involvement
12. Neimann Pick type C1 disease (compound heterozygote)

As you can see, it was the usual array of simple diagnoses!!!

1 comment:

jd said...

I strongly disagree with the inclusion of non-human cases.

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