Monday, April 24, 2017

Best Post of December 2016: Fibrous Bodies Nicely Demonstrated in a Smear from a Somatotroph Pituitary Adenoma

The next in our "Best of the Month Series" is from December 2, 2016:

Christian Davidson, MD

Dr. Christian Davidson, director of neuropathology at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospitalin New Jersey, provides today's blog post:

A 30-year-old man presented with bitemporal hemianopsia and a 3.0 cm pituitary mass was discovered upon MRI. His IGF-1 was elevated to 900, but he had no signs of acromegaly. A smear of tissue sent for frozen section evaluation (see below) revealed that most cells had round, eosinophilic, perinuclear inclusions suggestive of fibrous bodies (some examples are circled). Dot-like CAM5.2 immunostain (not shown) confirmed my smear-based diagnostic suspicion.


Thursday, April 6, 2017

Screenshots of the surgical neuropathology volume of the Johns Hopkins Atlases of Pathology

A month ago I put up a post regarding the release of Volume 3 of the Johns Hopkins Atlases of Pathology for the iPad. This app only costs $4.99 .  Here are some screenshots of the app provided to me by series editor Toby Cornish, MD, PhD:








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