Self-learning

What is a tophus? What kinds of cells and tissues comprise it? Point out the foreign body type giant cells. Encircle a tophus. Why is formalin fixation not ideal for tophus specimens? associated with? What kind of calculi are found,...

Show the cholesterolosis areas? Which part of the gallbladder wall is it found in. What is it highly associated with? What kind of calculi are found, very often, with cholesterolosis, yellow or green? Why? What color is cholesterolosis...

Define intestinalization of esophageal mucosa. Show it on this slide. What is, by far, the most common cause of a Barrett esophagus?

Should all esophageal mucosa, ideally, be squamous? What do you call it when it is replaced by glandular, i.e., gastric or intestinal, type of mucosa? A long standing Barrett esophagus presents a statistical increased risk for what...

What is the normal thickness of the endometrium, in mm. during an endometrial monthly cycle? What is an average thickness of an endometrium in atrophy, in mm.? Are actual endometrial glands sparse here? Find some. Endometrial atrophy...

What is hyperplasia defined as anywhere in the body? Are almost all the glands here at least separated from other glands by at least a small amount of connective tissue, i.e., stroma? Most hyperplasias are associated with increased...

What is recanalization? Demonstrate it. What percentage of the lumen is compromised in this slide?

Find cholesterol clefts. Delineate the thickness of the plaque. What is a plaque? What kinds of things is it commonly composed of? What percentage of the lumen is narrowed, i.e., compromised?

Encircle an area of squamous metaplasia. Encircle an area of squamous cell carcinoma-in-situ. What is the difference? Does metaplasia usually precede squamous cancer? Does most metaplasia develop into cancer?

Is this a tissue section or a smear of an epithelial surface? What famous doctor is this smear named after? In most non-atrophic normal Pap smears the predominant cell is a small nucleated abundantly cytoplasmed surface squamous...