There are some Pathology Student posts that readers seem to turn to over and over.
I thought it might be useful to pull together a list of the top 10 most-viewed posts this year. I hope you find some new and useful stuff here.
1. Nephrotic vs. nephritic syndrome
2. Conjugated vs. unconjugated bilirubinemia
5. How to study for boards, part I, part II and part III
6. How can you differentiate between iron-deficiency anemia and thalassemia?
7. Iron-deficiency anemia vs. anemia of chronic disease
8. The Little Orphan Annie tumor
9. Identifying normal leukocytes
10. Coagulation quiz
I wish everyone a happy, peaceful and productive new year. Please be safe if you are out on New Year’s Eve! See you in 2012.
Thank you for all of your posts! They’re great refreshers, and I’ve learned a lot!
May there be continued blessings for each of you here at Pathology Student and also all of the readers who continue to support and maintain this site! I truly wish you all the very best for 2012~ I am eternally grateful to have found this high quality and useful site. Thank you all for the love and effort that goes into this site everyday!
i am veterinary pathologist,working in preclinical toxicological pathology of rodents. i want know that “how can we differentiate metarubricytes from small lymphocytes in H & E tissue section”
Particularly in rodent (aged mice) Extra medullary hematopoiesis is common in spleen
I have not heard the term “metarubricyte” before. I’m assuming it refers to some stage of early erythrocyte development. The way I would tell erythrocyte precursors from lymphocytes in section is by looking at the chromatin (mature lymphocytes have a clumpy/smudgy chromatin; red cell precursors have blast-like chromatin that later becomes a solid black dot before the nucleus is extruded), and by looking at the cytoplasm (mature lymphocytes have virtually no cytoplasm in sections, so the nuclei are close together; red cells precursors have a fair amount of cytoplasm, so there will be spaces between the nuclei in histologic section). Try to find a photo of a normal bone marrow section showing red cell precursors – that will give you an idea of what you’re looking for. Also, take a look at a normal lymph node section – the mature lymphocytes are located in the “mantle zone” around the germinal centers.
Good luck!
As always KK. You are amazing. You are what I want to be when “I grow up”. 🙂