Lung
Lung, Lymph Node - Asthma
Find necrosis, find mucous plugs, find smooth muscle hypertrophy, find eosinophil infiltrates. Which 2 common disease states are associated with a peripheral eosinophilia?
Lung - Wegener Granulomatosis
Find necrosis. Find vasculitis. Find granulomas. Find multinucleated giant cells. What is the mortality of this disease? High?
Lung - Asthma
Describe, in words, some major ways bronchioles in asthma differ from normal bronchioles. Show some.
Lung - tumor Emboli
Which 2 organs are the most common sites of distant metastases from any malignancy? Which is the most common? If any tumor can be seen invading a vein, which organ is likely involved with metastases?
Lung - Thromboembolus (Thromboembolism)
Find it. Does a clot in a pulmonary artery usually come from somewhere else? Does a portion of a lung with a pulmonary embolism still ventilate, although it does not perfuse? What is a V/Q mismatch?
Lung - Recent Infarct
Why are true lung infarcts rather uncommon even with completely occluded pulmonary arteries? Are most recent lung infarcts hemorrhagic (red) rather than pale (white, or anemic)? Why? Does a portion of...
Lung - Chronic Pulmonary Congestion
What is a heart failure cell? Why is it called that? Find some? What is it filled with? Is this acute or chronic congestion? Why?
Lung - Acute Pulmonary Edema - Asbestos Bodies
Find an asbestos body inside a multinucleated giant cell. What color is it? What is it shaped like? Would this stain positive using the Prussian blue iron stain? Might that be the reason that it is also...
Lung And Liver- Congestion And Hemorrhage
Demonstrate congested (i.e., hyperemic) areas? Why is this called passive congestion?
Lung, Kidney - Metastatic Calcification
Identify the calcifications. Where are they? What would you expect the patient's serum calcium level to me in metastatic calcification?
Pleura - Adhesion
Can you separate visceral from parietal pleura in this section, even with a microscope? Can the terms adhesion and fibrosis, more or less, also be used interchangeably? Draw a line delineating the...