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Sickle cell anemia and Howell Jolly bodies (nuclear remnants).

 - Dr. Abubaker Elshaikh
@ElshaikhMD

#SickleCell #HowellJolly #Body #Bodies
Sickle cell anemia ... #HowellJolly #Body ... #Bodies #Pathology ... #Hematology #Smear ... #Clinical #Microscopy
Neoplastic plasma cells with nucleoli (left image) and intranuclear Dutcher body (right image).

Dutcher bodies are round,
Neoplastic plasma cells ... intranuclear Dutcher body ... #Intranuclear #Pathology ... #Clinical #Smear ... #Microscopy #PlasmaCells
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

What?
Myelodysplastic syndromes are a group of disorders caused by blood cells that are poorly
petechiae) • Frequent infections ... Peripheral Smear ... • Parvovirus infection ... factor (GCSF) treatments ... Peripheral blood smear
Aldosteronoma — Spironolactone Bodies 

1. Spironolactone is often used to treat hypertension caused by hyperaldosteronism, and
spironolactone body ... Red blood cells ... endoplasmic reticulum in cells ... #Pathology #Clinical ... #Gross #Microscopy
Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Lymphadenitis: 

Paracoccidioidomycosis is a systemic fungal infection rare in the US, but endemic in
systemic fungal infection ... Head&neck, Lymph Nodes ... seen within giant cells ... Lymphadenitis #Pathology ... LymphNode #Clinical #Microscopy
Grouped Pustules on an Erythematous Base - On physical examination, grouped, coalescing pustules that had scalloped
stain (Tzanck smear ... multinucleated giant cells ... human herpesvirus infection ... Clinical #Derm #Pathology ... #Microscopy #NEJM
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
humanus, AKA the body ... mostly on the body ... Infectious Diseases ... recurrentis #BloodSmear #microscopy ... #pathology #clinical
Solitary Cell Plasmacytoma

What?
• Plasma cell neoplasms can present as a single lesion (solitary plasmacytoma)
• In 3%
Solitary Cell Plasmacytoma ... • Plasma cell neoplasms ... MM, the plasma cell ... arises from plasma cells ... from the plasma cells
IDSA Recommendations for Preventing and Treating HHV-8 Diseases—Kaposi Sarcoma (KS), Primary Effusion Lymphoma (PEL), Multicentric Castleman’s
Since low CD4 cell ... skin and/or lymph nodes ... IDSA #Prevention #Treatment ... opportunistic #infections ... #HIVAIDS #pharmacology
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
travel to lymph nodes ... → spread in body ... Histoplasmosis Treatment ... Hematopoietic stem cell ... becomes a yeast cell