Thursday, May 21, 2009

Spot it 6: answer

Though they look like but these cells are NOT squamous cells. If we see carefully these cells are having geometric profiles, many have square or quadrangular appearance, characteristic feature of plant cells, contaminating the specimen.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Spot it 6


This is a image from sputum, a very interesting one, can you identify this cells??
I will post answer after two days

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Spot it 5: Answer

This image is of Toxoplasma myocarditis, showing encysted bradyzoites of Toxoplasma gondi

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Spot it-5

This image is from heart

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Breast FNAC - Probabilistic approach

Breast FNA is more sensitive and specific for malignant neoplasms than for borderline or benign lesions. A diagnostic approach based on the probability of identifying malignancy in a breast is therefore more clinically appropriate. This has been termed the probabilistic approach to the diagnosis of carcinoma.

Five diagnostic categories are defined

1) Positive for carcinoma

all four of the following must met:

Cellular dyshesion
Cytological atypia
Single cell population
Hypercellularity

2)Suspicious for carcinoma

When any three of the above four features are present

3)Epithelial proliferative lesion with atypia

when the specimen in cellular with many epithelial cells and when epithelial cells present in groups and show significant crowding and overlapping and/or specimen shows one other feature of malignancy out of above four.

4) Epithelial proliferative lesion without atypia

when specimen is cellular with many epithelial cell and the epithelial cells in groups show no or mild crowding and overlapping, with obvious myoepithelial cells present and no other features of carcinoma.

5) Unremarkable

when none of the four features of malignancy is present

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Spot it 4: Answer

Hi friends, this picture is of embryoid body from polyembryoma, a type of mixed germ cell tumor in which embryonal and yolk sac component combine to form structure resembling developing embryo (embryoid body)

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Spot it-4

Image from Ovary