🚨 Ever find yourself in need of a cellular cell block for #cytopath workup? Here is my "bulletproof" way of getting it!

You'll need:
1. Conical vial (lab)
2. Sheep's agar (micro)
3. Plating loop (micro)
4. Plasma/Thrombin (blood bank)
5. Wrapping paper (histo)

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#pathology 1. Spin down your fluid in a conical vial at high rpm (~1200) for 6-8 mins and remove supernatant

You'll have a soft slurry.

2. Add 3 drops plasma, 3 drops thrombin and spin again to form clot

#pathology #cytopath
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Painless hemiscrotal mass in a child, complex hydrocele on ultrasound.

Testis mass + smear... Fight!

#pedipath #gupath #cytopath Rhabdomyosarcoma is indeed the top-level diagnosis... but more importantly, what type??

Note: several H&E patterns here that correspond nicely to the patterns on cytology.

#pedipath #gupath #pathology

Something for the new path residents starting their journey

An A-Z of lymph node pathology

Some nice pictures of different lymph node pathology that you can commit a neuron or two?

One letter each day.

#hemepath #pathology #lymphnode #hematology #FOAMed An A-Z of lymph node pathology.

[A] Amyloidosis => Look in nodes from patients with MZL, LPL or plasma cell neoplasms

Ref: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3539760

#hemepath #pathology #lymphnode #hematology #FOAMed