Breast
Bon Appetit
Head and Neck
Fictional Pathologists
ME
100
The name of this benign lesion biopsied from the breast of a 30-year-old woman.
What is a tubular adenoma?
100
An ingredient in some Caesar salad recipes, this food also describes a type of parasitic hepatic abscess.
What is anchovy paste?
100
Related to the foramen cecum of the tongue, this congenital anomaly is a common cause of a midline neck mass.
What is a thyroglossal duct cyst?
Respiratory, squamous, or no epithelial lining; sometimes with residual thyroid tissue.
100
The speaker of the quote, "She's not only merely dead, she's really quite sincerely dead!"
Who is the Coroner Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz?
100
The difference between an incised wound and a stab wound.
What is an incised wound is longer than it is deep?
(What is a stab wound is deeper than it is long?)
200
These stains may be positive in metastatic triple negative breast cancers that are negative for more conventional breast markers like GATA3.
What are SOX10 and TRPS1?
200
The food term for the centrilobular hepatic congestion seen in people with right sided heart failure.
What is nutmeg liver?
200
This surrogate marker of viral infection is ordered routinely on oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas.
What is p16?
200
David McCallum plays this NCIS medical examiner whose friends call him by a bird nickname.
Who is Donald "Ducky" Mallard?
200
The range of the gunshot wound shown in this image.
What is intermediate?
300
The size range for a nodal micrometastasis from breast cancers.
What is 0.2 to 2 mm?
300
The medical term for the onion skin appearance of vessels in people with hypertension.
What is arteriolonephrosclerosis?
300
This benign salivary gland tumor occurs almost exclusively in the parotid gland shares several features with Hashimoto thyroiditis.
What is a Warthin tumor?
(Oncocytic cells and lymphoid infiltrate with germinal centers)
300
This fictional medical examiner's surname is also the middle name of the sixth president of the United States.
Who is Quincy (R. Quincy ME)?
300
Cause of death suggested by this image.
What is asphyxia?
400
Three features of malignant phyllodes tumor.
What are :
1. Marked nuclear pleomorphism of stromal cells
2. Stromal overgrowth
3. Ten or more mitoses per 10 HPF and
4. Infiltrative borders?
400
The genus and species of the parasite whose gametocytes have been compared to bananas.
What is Plasmodium falciparum?
400
The name of this S100 positve tumor found in the tongue (and elsewhere).
What is a granular cell tumor?
400
Unlike most forensic pathologists, this unorthodox French medical examiner is known to speak to the ghosts of the dead and is prone to ripping his shirt off.
What is Raphael Balthazar(Balthazar)?
400
The most common site of blunt traumatic aortic injury sustained in motor vehicle crashes.
What is the isthmus?
500
The pattern of E-cadherin staining for this malignant tumor of the breast.
What is inside-out? (Micropapillary carcinoma)
500
Vibrio cholerae elaborates a toxin that acts on the CFTR chloride channel to produce this unpleasant food-named result.
What is rice water stool?
500
This biphasic tumor has a propensity for perineural invasion and may have MYB-NFIB or MYBL1-NFIB fusion.
What is adenoid cystic carcinoma?
500
After the saving the life of a child, Home Office Pathologist Max DeBryn quips, "Makes a change to work on a live patient, I suppose, but I wouldn’t want to make a habit of it," on this BBC police drama.
What is Endeavour?
500
The phenomenon shown in this image of a mountain climber. He was discovered by rescuers in an area without any other footprints and showed no evidence of trauma.
What is paradoxical undressing?
