Lung
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...
Organizing Pneumonia
Why is this called organizing? What are the common cells and structures seen in organizing inflammation in ANY part of the body? Can the terms organizing inflammation and granulation tissue be used...
Lung - Healed Granuloma
Why is this called healed? If this was active TB years ago, and it is now called healed, might you still expect to culture acid fast organisms from here? Can the terms fibrosis and scarring be used...
Bronchopneumonia With Micro-Abscesses
What is a microabscess defined as? Delineate an alveolus jam packed with neutrophils
Sarcoidosis
What is a classical profile with somebody with sarcoid? Why do may people, erroneously, regard sarcoidosis as granulomas in which no organisms can be cultured? Demonstrate a classical granuloma. What...
Empyema With Organized Granulation Tissue
What is the definition of empyema? Why might the term organized granulation tissue be redundant? Why might empyema and granulation be oxymoronic? Demonstrate fibrin. Demonstrate neutrophils. Demonstrate...
Early Pneumonia
Why might this be called the early stage of inflammation? Demonstrate at least two reasons why.
Bronchopneumonia
What is the main differentiation between bronchopneumonia and lobar pneumonia? Where do broncho-pneumonias start? Why might this lung be heavier than normal? Why might there be fewer air bubbles when...
Lung - Acute Infarct - Septic
Why are true infarcts of the lung uncommon even with pulmonary emboli? Why might this one be called septic? Can you see bacteria?[if] Why might this be called a hemorrhagic infarct (rather than anemic...