Diego Morales, MD Profile picture
Always a student. I like lenses & I’m very curious. #DermPath #SurgPath #birding #ILikeLenses #pathfulness. Opinions my own. Tweets are not medical advice.
Apr 21, 2023 26 tweets 14 min read
Hey #PathTwitter & #MedTwitter, check out Pedro Pascal transformed into Pedro Pathcal as different stains & methods in histo/cyto/pathology!

Who said #Pathology & #LabMed can't be fun? Embrace your inner histo/cyto/pathologist and celebrate #LabWeek2023! (4/23 - 4/29) 🧬🔬🎭 Image Hematoxylin, fancy name for a natural dye derived from tropical trees logwood and Brazilwood. It binds to acids (ie.DNA & RNA), turning them a lovely shade of blue or purple. It's a daily go-to in pathology labs! Check out PMID: 30001639 for a great read on its history and usage. Image
Jun 6, 2021 13 tweets 17 min read
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Eosinophilic cytoplasmic bodies in melanocytes.

Perhaps one of the most overlooked findings in #dermpath -according to me-. I will show all the cases I’ve found since ~April 2020 (around 20 cases) and say a few words about #Gottliebbodies 👇🏼

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🔴Gottlieb bodies

I don’t spend much more time looking for them, I only search when I see sebocyte-like melanocytes (not that rare)

🏓 eosinophilic cytoplasmic body within an -usually-multinucleated vacuolated melanocyte
🏓 small incipient ones have basophilic appearance ImageImageImageImage