Self-learning
Endometrium - Hyperplasia
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...
Coronary Artery - Atherosclerosis - Recanalization
What is recanalization? Demonstrate it. What percentage of the lumen is compromised in this slide?
Coronary Arteries - Atherosclerosis
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?
Cervix - Squamous Metaplasia
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...
Cervix - Atrophy
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...
Breast - Hyperplasia Of Lactation
What is the eosinophilic material distending many acini? Show it. Is this glandular/stromal cross-sectional ratio higher than the previous slide? Why?
Breast - Hyperplasia Of Pregnancy
What percentage of this breast tissue is glands (vs. stroma or connective tissue)? What is a normal percentage for premenopausal, non-pregnant adult women, pregnant women, lactating women, and postmenopausal...
Bone Marrow - Erythroid Hyperplasia
What is the normal ratio of marrow cells to fat in an average normal adult hematopoetic bone marrow? What is the ratio here? What is the normal ratio of myeloid cells to erythroid cells in an average...
Bone - Hyperparathyroidism
Name some common causes of hyperparathyroidism. What is the normal weight of a single parathyroid gland? Are most causes of hyperparathyroidism associated with an increase in parathyroid gland weight?...
Aorta - Atherosclerosis 2
Point out cholesterol clefts, ulceration (of intima), and dystrophic calcification. Is dystrophic calcification usually associated with hypercalcemia? Is the other type of calcification, metastatic...
Aorta - Atherosclerosis With Fatty Streak
Encircle the fatty streak. What is its significance? Is a fatty streak the earliest grossly recognizable finding of atherosclerosis? At what age can fatty streaks be identified in most Americans? What...
Adrenal - Atrophy
Demonstrate the thickness of the adrenal cortex. Does the general term adrenal atrophy usually refer to the cortex or medulla? Could the term hypoplasia apply here as well? Name 2 common causes of cortical...
Stomach - Erosion
Draw a line delineating the precise area of epithelial loss. Do you think the term erosion, in this case, can be, more or less, interchangeably, used with the term ulceration?
Soft Tissue - Foreign Body Reaction
Foreign body tissue reactions almost always involve which types of cells? What is the derivation of these cells? Point arrows to a bunch of them. Do you think you can often see the actual foreign material...
Duodenum - Chronic Peptic Ulcer - Penetrating
Demonstrate several processes which justify NOT calling this ulcer acute? Draw a line where the mucosa ends.