Case Study

Prototypical Examples of Clinicopathologic Entities--

1. 18 year old boy with dull pain in the right wrist and gradual swelling of the distal arm:

ANEURSYMAL BONE CYST

2. 24 year old man with a rapidly-growing "knot" in the subcutaneous tissue of the right chest wall--

NODULAR FASCIITIS

3. Infant boy with refractory diarrhea and failure to thrive. Laparotomy & small bowel biopsy were done--

"TUFTING" ENTEROPATHY (PRIMARY SMALL

INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL DYSPLASIA)

4. 35 year old man with a reddish patch on the hand, present for 3 months and progressively enlarging--

(Immunostain for Herpesvirus-8 Latent nuclear antigen-1)

KAPOSI'S SARCOMA, PATCH STAGE

Here's a powerpoint-based case study--- click on the underlined words--

5. 65 year old man with shortness of breath and a 7 cm mass in the anterior mediastinum on chest radiographs--

FOR AN INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMIC IMMUNOHISTOLOGY, CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK TO SEE A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION ON THAT TOPIC-- Algorithms in Diagnostic Immunohistology (Power Point File 1.7 megs Right click the link and select 'save as' to save file to your computer.)

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