Know Your Attendings
Postal Service
Smear Campaign
Pot Pouri
GU
100
These pathology attendings both sign out at Bridgeport Hospital and are both Navy veterans.
Who are Christine Minerowicz and Bill Laskin?
100
This is the most common cause of severe gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
What are peptic ulcers?
100
Diagnosis for this 21-year-old man with history of epistaxis and bleeding with dental procedures. His smear is shown here. Flow cytometry showed abnormalities in GpIb-V-IX complex.
What is Bernard-Soulier syndrome?
100
Low power, lymph node excision.
What is nodular lymphoma?
100
The cause of the renal and ureteral changes seen in this block from a pediatric autopsy.
What is reflux? What are posterior urethral valves?
200
This endocrine head and neck attending likes to go on hikes, but you will never find a chocolate bar in his backpack.
Who is John Sinard?
200
This external examination finding is related to what chronic condition?
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? (Dahl's sign)
200
The diagnosis for this blood smear from a 68-year-old man.
What is chronic myelogenous leukemia?
200
High power, breast core biopsy
What is invasive lobular carcinoma?
200
Your gross diagnosis on this testis form a 35-year-old man.
What is a nonseminomatous germ cell tumor (teratoma histologically)?
300
This gastrointestinal pathologist is an avid painter who has had his work exhibited at USCAP.
Who is Dhanpat Jain?
300
This class of drugs is associated with the image shown here.
What is nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)?
300
Diagnosis for this smear.
What is acute leukemia?
300
What is a butterfly glioblastoma?
300
Your diagnosis for this prostate needle core biopsy from a 75-year-old man (be as complete as possible).
What is adenocarcinoma, Gleason 3+3, with extraprostatic extension.
400
Co-director of the Legacy Tissue Donation program, he is the only adult autopsy pathologist who did not come through the Yale residency.
Who is Marcello DiStasio?
400
This glomerular autopsy finding is often found in patients with the pancreatic islet change shown on this Congo red stained slide.
What is nodular sclerosis (Kiimelstiel-Wilson)?
400
The diagnosis for these images from a child with recurrent staphylococcal skin infections.
What is Chediak Higashi syndrome?
400
Gross airway change shown here.
What is bronchiectasis?
400
The diagnosis for this renal biopsy from a patient with hypertension, hematuria, and proteinuria.
What is crescentic glomerulonephritis?
(Clinical counterpart is rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis.)
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
This pathology power couple are experts in both hospital and forensic autopsies.
500
A cause for the pathologic finding shown here.
Pulmonary hypertension, tricuspid regurgitation, tricuspid stenosis, chronic thromboembolic disease, ASD, VSD, high altitude....
500
The diagnosis for this blood smear from a patient returned from a trip to west Africa.
What is Loa loa?
500
The type of weapon used and distance from the victim for the image shown here.
What is a distant shotgun wound?
500
The diagnosis for this image, a high power image of a renal tumor.
What is chromophobe renal cell carcinoma?
