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Case 33
A young female was found to have a cervical lesion and the biopsy is shown as follows: 1.What's the morphology impression and what stains...
Case 32
A 50-year-old female was found to have a 6.0 cm temporal mass. IDH was negative, Ki-67 was 75%. What's the diagnosis? A:...
Case 31
A pancreatic tail mass connected with spleen. Here is the section: >80% of section showed this morphology of glands with mucin pool...
Case 30
A 30-year-old female with a right kidney tumor. What's the morphology impression? A: Papillary renal cell carcinoma B: TFEB-rearranged...
Steroid cell tumor malignant potential
Reference: Fadare O, Fard EV, Bhargava R, Desouki MM, Hanley KZ, Ip PPC, Li JJX, Lu B, Medeiros F, Ng JHY, Parkash V, Pinto A, Quick CM,...
STIC vs STIL vs p53 signature
Numan, T. A. (2023). Atlas of gynecologic pathology . Numan, T. A. (2023). Atlas of gynecologic pathology .
Pseudomyogenic EHE
Picture credit from WHO classification of tumor and Dr. Ren Dong, MD, UC Irvine
Case 29
A 70-year-old female presented with a 8.0 cm ovarian mass. Frozen section was done and a malignant process can not be ruled out. Here is...
Crushed blue cell nodule in lung
Comparing the lymphoid tissue (first image) , the tumor cells are crushed and more spindly. This study examined CD5 expression in thymic...
Case 28
A 40-year-old female with significant uterine cancer history who presented with a large retroperitoneal mass. What is the morphology...
Case 27
A 60-year-old male was found to have pleural effusion and a pleural biopsy was performed. What is the morphology impression and what...
Adenofibroma in uterus is not recognized anymore
The current criteria for adenosarcoma is phyllodiform cleft-like or dilated glands (rigid cysts) lined by benign endometrial or...
Papillary adenoma versus papillary RCC in Kidney
Trisomy 7 and 17 and loss of Y chromosome; + for CK7, AMACR
Case 26
A middle-aged man presented with weight loss and epigastric pain. An endoscopy with biopsy was performed and sent to pathology. What's...
Case 25
A 30-year-old male was found to have large intra-abdominal mass. Tumor positive for keratin. Answer This is a case of desmoplastic small...
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