Integrated Gross & Histological Pathology

Question 1

Auer rods

Answer 1

AML

Question 2

Faggot cells

Answer 2

APL

Question 3

smudge cells

Answer 3

CLL

Question 4

fried-egg lymphocytes

Answer 4

hairy cell leukemia

Question 5

clover-leaf cells

Answer 5

ATLL

Question 6

Reed-Sternberg (RS) cells

Answer 6

Hodgkin lymphoma

Question 7

popcorn cells

Answer 7

non-classical Hodgkin lymphoma

Question 8

buttock cells

Answer 8

NHL: follicular lymphoma

Question 9

starry sky pattern

Answer 9

NHL: Burkitt lymphoma

Question 10

large lymphocytes with wreath-like nuclei

Answer 10

Anaplastic T-cell lymphoma

Question 11

pseudo-Pelger Huet anomaly

Answer 11

MDS

Question 12

Onion skin

Answer 12

hyperplastic arteriolosclerosis, in malignant hypertension

Question 13

boxcar nuclei

Answer 13

systemic hypertensive heart disease

Question 14

Aschoff bodies

Answer 14

Acute rheumatic heart disease

Question 15

Anitschkow cells / caterpillar cells

Answer 15

Acute rheumatic heart disease

Question 16

banana-like LV cavity

Answer 16

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Question 17

Kimmelstiel-Wilson lesion

Answer 17

diabetic nephropathy

Question 18

Michaelis-Gutmann bodies

Answer 18

Malakoplakia (a form of chronic granulomatous cystitis)

Question 19

Schiller-Duval bodies

Answer 19

Yolk sac tumour

Question 20

Reinke crystals

Answer 20

Leydig cell tumour

Question 21

ring sideroblasts

Answer 21

MDS

Question 22

smear cells

Answer 22

CLL

Question 23

koilocytosis

Answer 23

HPV infection

Question 24

Owl’s eye-like inclusion

Answer 24

CMV infection

Question 25

chocolate cyst

Answer 25

endometriosis

Question 26

Hurthle cells

Answer 26

Hashimoto thyroiditis

Question 27

contraction band necrosis

Answer 27

reperfusion injury of heart

Question 28

flabby ventricular wall

Answer 28

dilated cardiomyopathy

Question 29

Curshmann spirals

Answer 29

asthma (= mucus plug with high viscosity)

Question 30

Charcot-Leyden crystals

Answer 30

asthma (= collections of crystalloids of eosinophil proteins)

Question 31

neurofibrilary tangles

Answer 31

Alzheimer's disease

Question 32

neuritic plaque

Answer 32

Alzheimer's disease

Question 33

ragged red fibres

Answer 33

mitochondrial myopathy

Question 34

cannonball lesions

Answer 34

lung metastasis, haematological spread

Question 35

Bull eye’s pattern

Answer 35

Invasive lobular carcinoma of breast