Education

This "Phlebotomy webinar" focuses on the origins of difficult collections and the situations that result in them.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Brad Karon, M.D., Ph.D., will discuss recent information on the advantages and disadvantages of using butterfly needles for blood collection.

This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for February include the following sub-specialties: Anatomic Pathology, Cytopathology, Clinical Microbiology, Gastroenterology, Hematopathology, Infectious Disease, and Laboratory Genetics & Genomics

A 65-year-old man with history of treated anal intraepithelial neoplasia presents with new-onset diarrhea. A Papanicolaou-stained anal smear was performed for follow-up cancer screening. Nicholas[...]

78 year old man with new onset bilateral shoulder/neck pain and weakness, jaw pain exacerbated by chewing, and odynophagia with both solids and liquids. A[...]

A 43-year-old female presents with seizures following weeks of progressive lower extremity numbness. Imaging reveals a contrast-enhancing parasagittal brain mass without other systemic findings. She[...]

A 71 yr old female with a history of a central nervous system lymphoma, an allogenic stem cell transplant and graft versus host disease was[...]

Mayo Clinic pathologists, researchers, and a wide spectrum of allied health staff will be in Los Angeles, California, for the 109th United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Meeting (USCAP). Visit us at booth #716 on March 2 - 4, 2020 to discuss how our testing can integrate with your practice.

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Sounak Gupta, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., discusses selecting tissues and other tissue considerations for molecular testing. He also reviews tissue metrics and requirements, which differ based on test platforms. It is important to keep in mind that the details of tissue metrics change over time as they continue to evolve with technology.

This "Pathways" program provides Anatomic and Clinical Pathology cases that include a history, potential answers, rationale, and relevant references. Cases for January include the following sub-specialties: bone and soft tissue, cellular therapy, laboratory genetics and genomics, and pulmonary

A 27-year-old man underwent amputation of the right fourth toe for a soft tissue mass. Kyriakos Chatzopoulos, M.D.Resident, Anatomic and Clinical PathologyMayo Clinic Andrew Folpe,[...]

Chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR T cells) represent an exciting new area of cellular therapy. Manufacturing autologous CAR T cells involves virally transducing a[...]

A 19 year old female with a complex phenotype suggestive of a mitochondrial disorder had mitochondrial DNA sequencing performed three times at an outside institution,[...]