80 y.o. male presents with fever and rigors after nephrostomy tube change on the last day of BCG immunotherapy for urothelial carcinoma. Routine bacterial blood[...]
Mayo Clinic laboratory experts share eight case studies in this month’s “PathWays” post and are challenging you to test your transfusion medicine, hematopathology, clinical chemistry, bone and soft tissue, cardiovascular, surgical and genitourinary pathology knowledge. Review the cases, take the quizzes, and learn how the correct diagnoses were made.
A 25-year-old man is a repeat whole blood donor and recently donated blood. Routine blood donor pathogen screening came back positive for human immunodifficiency virus-1[...]
A seven-year-old female presents with a left cheek mass. Flow cytometric immunophenotyping showed an abnormal cell population that expressed CD2, CD4 (partial weak), CD7, CD38,[...]
An 88-year old-female presented with chronic lymphocytic leukemia under chemotherapy. Vijayalakshmi Nandakumar, Ph.D., M.S. Fellow, Clinical Chemistry Mayo Clinic Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D. Consultant, Clinical[...]
Mayo Clinic laboratory experts share six case studies in this month’s “PathWays” post and are challenging you to test your bone and soft tissue, surgical, clinical, genitourinary pathology, hematopathology and laboratory genetics and genomics knowledge. Review the cases, take the quizzes, and learn how the correct diagnoses were made.
A 59-year-old female presents with hypersplenism. CT scan showed multiple hypo-attenuating nodules in the spleen. The patient underwent splenectomy. Khadijeh Jahanseir, M.D. Resident, Anatomic and[...]
A 13-month-old female underwent an allogeneic liver transplant at 3-months of age for end stage liver failure secondary to gestational allo-immune liver disease. Eight months[...]
A 28-year-old male was referred to the Cytogenetics laboratory due to a history of a partner with multiple miscarriages. Chromosome analysis of peripheral blood revealed[...]
Mayo Clinic laboratory experts share six case studies in this month’s “PathWays” post and are challenging you to test your cytopathology, anatomic and clinical, and molecular genetic pathology knowledge. Review the cases, take the quizzes, and learn how the correct diagnoses were made.
74-year-old female presented with a painless right parotid mass that had been stable for two years. Imaging showed a (1 cm) hypoechoic, slightly lobulated nodule.[...]
A 21-year-old man with a history of germ cell tumor status post orchiectomy, reported as a 7 cm mass; 80% yolk sac and 20% teratomatous,[...]
A 23 year old presents to his family care physician with a five-month history of right-sided facial numbness and eyelid twitching. He is a non-smoker[...]