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Valerie A. Fitzhugh, MD Profile picture
Valerie A. Fitzhugh, MD
@DrFNA
Bone/soft tissue/cytopathologist. Professor & Chair, Pathology @Rutgers_NJMS & @RWJMS. FAL. Tweets are my opinion only! Wife to an 🇪🇪 man and proud mom of 2!
Dec 27, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Pathologists have lots of jobs. In this thread, I'll walk you through what happens if you have a biopsy or surgery. This is surgical pathology; there are lots of other types of pathology and someday I will write other threads for that. 1/8 The tissue you had removed comes to our lab in a container. It is labeled with your name, your birthday, a medical record number (how you are identified in the hospital or surgicenter) and the physician’s name who performed the procedure 2/8
Dec 23, 2020 • 14 tweets • 8 min read
”I got tested for #COVID19 10 days ago and I don’t have a result! What’s taking so long????” This is a question I have heard many, many, times over the last 9 months. It is not everyone’s reality, but it does happen sometimes (Long thread alert) 1/14 Let’s talk about #COVID19 testing from the pathologist’s perspective (physicians like me who review and sign off on the validation studies in our labs so you can get tested amongst many other jobs; I need to do a what a pathologist does thread, but I digress) 2/14
Dec 12, 2020 • 21 tweets • 11 min read
I want to share my story with you; I think given my last post it is important. I am a participant in a Phase 3 clinical trial for a #COVIDVaccine. I did not make the decision lightly; I am a wife and a mom to two young kids. Admittedly, my husband was not happy! #COVID19 1/18 I know that communities of color, and in particular, my community, the black community, has a myriad of reasons to not trust medicine, and to not trust this vaccine. My ancestors have been experimented on and have been hurt by doctors in the name of science. 2/18
Aug 22, 2018 • 12 tweets • 11 min read
Last night I posted this lovely gross picture; I’m now adding a couple of histologic images. Kudos to @kriyer68 and @DrAldehyde for being the first to submit the correct answer- this is indeed a synovial sarcoma! Not a bad time for a #Tweetorial #BSTPath Synovial sarcoma is actually uncommon in joint cavities & does not recapitulate synovium in any way. Its rare amongst soft tissue sarcomas, representing only 5-10% of the cases. The disease is most prevalent in teenagers & young adults; 50% of cases are seen in pediatric patients