Mayo Clinic laboratory experts share five case studies in this month’s “PathWays” post and are challenging you to test your laboratory genetics & genomics, bone & soft tissue, renal, infectious disease, and gastroenterology pathology knowledge. Review the cases, take the quizzes, and learn how the correct diagnoses were made.
A 5 year old male patient with a complex phenotype was seen in clinic. He presented with developmental delay, feeding difficulty, cerebellar malformation, coagulation problems,[...]
Mayo Clinic laboratory experts share five case studies in this month’s “PathWays” post and are challenging you to test your clinical microbiology, bone and soft tissue, clinical, infectious disease, and gastroenterology knowledge. Review the cases, take the quizzes, and learn how the correct diagnoses were made.
A 61 year-old men presented to his primary care physician with a chronic course of generalized weakness, fatigue, back bone pain and weight loss (15[...]
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[...]