Aaron into to path Flashcards
How do sarcomas spread?
Hematogenously
How do carcinomas spread?
Lymphatics
What are the four carcinomas that travel in the blood?
Renal Cell Carcinoma, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Follicular carcinoma of the thyroid, and choriocarcinoma
When there is a stain that is positive for keratin, where did it come from?
Keratin, dealing with a carcinoma, marker of a cell with an epithelial origin
When there is a stain that is positive for vimentin, where did it come from?
Mesenchyme, dealing with a sarcoma
When there is a stain that is positive for Desmin, where did it come from?
Muscle
When there is a stain that is positive for GFAP, where did it come from?
Neuroglia cells
When there is a stain that is positive for neurofilament, what is staining for?
Neurons
When there is a stain that is positive for chromogranin, what does it stain positive for?
Neuroendocrine Cells
What is an important catalase positive organism that occurs with granuloma formation?
Pseudomonas Cepacia
What is the key component of a granuloma?
Epitheloid histiocyte (macrophage, with abundant pink cytoplasm)
What is the respective stain for TB?
Auramine-rhodamine stain
If there is a triad of hypoparathyroid, adrenal, and candidia, what is the general issue/gene problem?
FYI: This issue is a gene issue that does not allow for negative selection to occur in thymic medulla
Central Tolerance in Thymus
AIRE mutation (autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome)
What disease is associated with anti-U1 RNP?
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
If a patient has an autoimmune disease, no tear production and no saliva production, what could we have?
Sjogren Syndrome
Limited Scleroderma
When I have CREST syndrome –> limited scleroderma, what things are going to be increased?
increased endothelin, anti-centromere antibody
Where are the stem cells of the small and large intestine located?
stem cells in the mucosal crypts
What are the three things that show up in granulation tissue courtesy of tissue repair?
Fibroblasts (type III collagen) Capillaries (nutrients) Myofibroblasts (contract wound)
TTP, is the result of what enzyme gone bad?
Adams 13, cannot cut up vWF multimers
ITP, is an acute issue in kids, due to what?
viral illness