Know Your Autopsy Staff
Gastrointestinal Pathology
My Body is a Vessel
CP
Dangerous Ingestions
100
They worked together at the OCME before coming to Yale.
Who are Stefany Mauri and John Balint?
100
Hereditary diffuse gastric carcinoma is commonly associated with this gene.
What is CDH1?
100
The disease illustrated in this image of a dilated coronary artery from a three-year-old.
What is Kawasaki disease?
100
The most expensive line item in a typical clincal laboratory budget.
What is "Salaries"?
100
Chronic ingestion of this poison can lead to squamous cell carcinomas.
What is arsenic?
200
Despite his calm demeanor, this autopsy PA is a die hard Philadelphia Eagles fan.
Who is Chris Baldoni?
200
Groups of 1 to 4 tumor cells at the advancing front of a colon cancer.
What is a tumor bud?
200
These images show features of this disease.
What is hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia?
200
Blood from this type of donor carries a higher risk for the development of transfusion related lung injury (TRALI).
What are multiparous women?
200
This poison, which causes hair loss and peripheral nerve damage, can be countered with Prussian blue.
What is thallium?
300
Her desk plaque says "Autopsy Barbie"
Who is Crystal Moriello?
300
The basis for grading of small bowel neuroendocrine tumors.
What are mitoses/Ki67?
300
The cause of massive gastrointestinal bleeding shown here.
What is aortoduodenal fistula?
300
Two possible causes for a sodium of 128m Eq/L in a patient with a normal serum osmolarity.
What are hyperlipidemia and hyperproteinemia?
300
Overdoses of this drug cause disturbances in color vision that some feel may explain elements of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings.
What is digitalis?
400
She loves Harry Potter, death metal, and a complicated abdomen.
Who is Emily Barkley?
400
The probable diagnosis for this biopsy from a 48-year-old woman with abdominal pain and blood tinged diarrhea.
What is Crohn's disease?
400
The likely diagnosis for the patient with hemolysis, dark urine, and the renal biopsy shown below.
What is TTP (HUS)?
400
This systemic condition may be associated with a monoclonal gammopathy on SPEP
What is amyloidosis?
400
Urinary benzoylecognine is the analyte used to check for toxicity from this drug.
What is cocaine?
500
Before joining the autopsy service at Yale, this PA was a competitive weight lifter.
Who is Amanda Masters?
500
The diagnosis shown in this image of esophageal tissue taken from a man with a dilated esophagus.
What is Trypanosoma cruzi (Chaga's disease)?
500
HHV8 has been associated with this vascular tumor.
What is Kaposi's sarcoma?
(Also primary effusion lymphoma and multi centric Castleman's disease)
500
Proteus mirabilis exhibits this kind of motility on agar plates.
What is swarming motility?
500
Poisoning with this mineral has been associated with dense metaphyseal lines on x-ray.
What is lead?
(Also abdominal pain, headaches, paresthesias, and intellectual disability)