Classic lab findings

Question 1

nutmeg appearance of liver

Answer 1

chronic passive congestion of liver due to right heatr failure, bud chiari syndrome

Question 2

mucin filled cells with peripheral nucleus

Answer 2

signet ring cells
diffuse gastric carcinoma

Question 3

eosinophillic cytoplasmic inclusion of damaged keratin within hepatocyte

Answer 3

mallory body (alcohol hepatitis)

Question 4

thumb sign and steeple sign on XR

Answer 4

thumb isgb = epiglottitis
steeple sign = croup

Question 5

anti-smooth muscle + anti-liver kidney microsomal-1 (anti-LKM1antibodies)

Answer 5

autoimmune hepatitis

Question 6

eosinophillic inclusion bodies in cytoplasm of hippocampal and cerebral neurones

Answer 6

rabies

Question 7

small blue cell ssurrounding central area of neuropil

Answer 7

pseudorosettes found in neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma

Question 8

tram-track appearancee of capillary loops of glomerular basement membrane on light microscopy

Answer 8

membranoproliferative flomerulonephritis

Question 9

wire-loop glomerular capillary appearance on light microscopy

Answer 9

diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis

Question 10

sideroblastic anaemia

Answer 10

thalassaemia
sideroblastic anaemia

Question 11

branching gram positive rods with sulfur granules

Answer 11

actinomyces israelli

Question 12

esoinophillic, hexagonal, double pointed crystals in bronchial secretions

Answer 12

charcot-leyden crystals found in asthma

Question 13

whorled mucous plugs formed from shed bronchial epithelium

Answer 13

curshman spirals found in asthma

Question 14

golden brown fusiform rods resembling dumbbells in alveolar sputum, visualized with prussian blue stain

Answer 14

ferruginous bodies (asbestos)