Case of the Week 583

By Bobbi Pritt, M.D. • March 11, 2020

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This week's case was donated by Dr. Daniel Cohen. The following specimen was submitted to surgical pathology for examination. No additional history was available. What's the identification? What structures are we seeing here?

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Like all specimens in surgical pathology, it was sectioned and made into H&E-stained slides.

Answer to Case 583:

Immature Taenia sp. proglottids

Bobbi Pritt, M.D.

Bobbi Pritt, MD, MSc, is a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and the Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. She is also the Chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology. Her research interests are in clinical parasitology, vector-borne diseases and the pathology of infectious diseases.