14 January 2022: Weekly Roundup #75


This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com:

1. New Editorial Board Appointment for Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology

Dr. Farres Obeidin was appointed to our Editorial Board for Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology. Dr. Obeidin is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He obtained his M.D. at the Medical College of Georgia and then completed his Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency at Northwestern University. He then completed a fellowship in General Surgical Pathology and Bone and Soft Tissue Pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

2. 2021 Website Statistics

These pages, accessible by links on the Statistics tab in the Header and Footer, are now updated with 2021 statistics:

3. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists

This is Dr. Pernick’s favorite image. It features a gastric MALT lymphoma and can be found on his Directory page. It illustrates that H. pylori can cause malignancies by the process of antigen driven lymphoproliferation, and we can actually cure at least some malignancies with antibiotics!

What is your favorite image? Email it to us at Directory@PathologyOutlines.com (up to 10MB as an attachment) with a figure legend, diagnosis and subspecialty, and we will add it to your Directory profile. If you don’t have a profile yet and you are a pathologist, sign up by filling in a short form at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CMTGNSK.

Currently, we have profiles for ~33% of all U.S. academic pathologists. We should finish adding the rest by this summer (excluding those who opt out). Then, we will start adding other pathologists. That said, any pathologist can sign up now by filling in the short form linked above.

7 January 2022: Weekly Roundup #74


This is what’s new on PathologyOutlines.com:

1. New Editorial Board Appointments

Dr. Meaghan Morris was appointed to our Editorial Board for Neuropathology in January of 2022. Dr. Morris is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University. She obtained her M.D. and Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University, with her graduate studies done in collaboration with the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease. She completed her Anatomic Pathology residency and Neuropathology fellowship at Johns Hopkins. 

Dr. Jefree J. Schulte was appointed to the Editorial Board for Thoracic Pathology in December of 2021. He is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at The University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he serves as the faculty lead of the Thoracic, Bone and Soft Tissue subspecialty group and faculty advisor to the histochemistry laboratory. He obtained his M.D. at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed his Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency at The University of Chicago. He subsequently did 2 years of fellowship training in Surgical Pathology at the University of Chicago, focusing on Thoracic, Head and Neck and Gynecologic Pathology.  

2. 2021 – Year in Review Video

We have posted a YouTube video highlighting the significant changes that were made to PathologyOutlines.com in 2021. View it at https://youtu.be/OoLTplgvq0M.

3. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists

Our Pathologist Directory is now approaching 4,000 profiles, including 3,200 US pathologists. Can pathologists find you in the Directory? If not, sign up by completing our short form at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CMTGNSK.

The Directory now allows you to combine these search filters: location, subspecialty, institution, last name (first letter).

4. Directory Highlight

This week’s interesting Directory entry is contributed by Peter Wanes, M.D., University of Arizona:

Subspecialty: Cytopathology

Diagnosis: Candida

5. Jobs Page Update

Jobs by subspecialty are now sorted by date posted.

17 November 2021: Pathologists’ Directory Highlights

If you are a pathologist, your colleagues will soon be looking you up regularly on our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists because they saw your name connected with a surgical pathology report, a topic on our website, a paper, a talk, a committee or otherwise. If you have not yet signed up for the Directory, please click here and fill out our short survey to do so. If you’ve already signed up, please spread the word to your colleagues who have not signed up. Email Dr. Pernick at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com with any questions.

This week we are highlighting favorite images from the Directory. Use the search image feature to find images in any subspecialty on our Directory page.

Favorite Images

Leydig cell tumor of the testis (Courtesy of Matthew Crabtree, M.D., M.Sc.)

Rete testis with pagetoid spread of seminoma (Courtesy of Vikas Mehta, M.D.)

Light chain cast nephropathy (Courtesy of Jonathan Zuckerman, M.D., Ph.D.)

Bladder, myxoid stroma associated with invasive cancer (Courtesy of Maria Tretiakova, M.D., Ph.D.)

20 October 2021: Pathologists’ Directory Highlights

If you are a pathologist, your colleagues will soon be looking you up regularly on our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists because they saw your name connected with a surgical pathology report, a topic on our website, a paper, a talk, a committee or otherwise. If you have not yet signed up for the Directory, please click here and fill out our short survey to do so. If you’ve already signed up, please spread the word to your colleagues who have not signed up. Email Dr. Pernick at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com with any questions.

This week we are highlighting Directory images of testicular tumors. Use the search image feature to find images in any subspecialty on our Directory page.

Favorite Images

Leydig cell tumor of the testis (Courtesy of Matthew Crabtree, M.D., M.Sc.)

Rete testis with pagetoid spread of seminoma (Courtesy of Vikas Mehta, M.D.)

13 October 2021: Pathologists’ Directory Highlights

If you are a pathologist, your colleagues will soon be looking you up regularly on our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists because they saw your name connected with a surgical pathology report, a topic on our website, a paper, a talk, a committee or otherwise. If you have not yet signed up for the Directory, please click here and fill out our short survey to do so. If you’ve already signed up, please spread the word to your colleagues who have not signed up. Email Dr. Pernick at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com with any questions.

This week we are highlighting image contributions of pathologists from Mayo Clinic, one of our signup leaders.

Images

Microbiology & parasitology – Trichuris trichiura (whipworm) (Courtesy of Bobbi S. Pritt, M.D., M.Sc.)

Lymph nodes & spleen – Rosai Dorfman disease (Courtesy of Aishwarya Ravindran, M.D.)

High power view of colonic biopsy with collagenous colitis. A thick, hyalinized subepithelial collagen band with entrapped inflammatory cells is evident. (Courtesy of Catherine Hagen, M.D.)

22 September 2021: Pathologists’ Directory Highlights

If you are a pathologist, your colleagues will soon be looking you up regularly on our new Worldwide Directory of Pathologists because they saw your name connected with a surgical pathology report, a topic on our website, a paper, a talk, a committee or otherwise. If you have not yet signed up for the Directory, please click here and fill out our short survey to do so. If you’ve already signed up, please spread the word to your colleagues who have not signed up. Email Dr. Pernick at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com with any questions.

This week we are highlighting image contributions of pathologists from Northwestern University, in the Directory and otherwise.

Words of Wisdom

My mentor in residency (Dr. KarMing Fung) told me to remember these rules when I want to make a diagnosis: 1. Trust no one. 2. Find the killer. 3. Learn from others’ mistakes. (Courtesy of Sepideh Nikki Asadbeigi, M.D.)

Images

Brain – Chordoid glioma (Courtesy of Daniel J. Brat, M.D., Ph.D.)

15 September 2021: Pathologists’ Directory Highlights

If you are a pathologist, your colleagues will soon be looking you up regularly on our new Worldwide Directory of Pathologists because they saw your name connected with a surgical pathology report, a topic on our website, a paper, a talk, a committee or otherwise. If you have not yet signed up for the Directory, please click here and fill out our short survey to do so. If you’ve already signed up, please spread the word to your colleagues who have not signed up. Email Dr. Pernick at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com with any questions.

This week we are highlighting image contributions of our Breast Pathology Deputy Editor and Editorial Board members, in the Directory and otherwise.

Favorite Images

Breast perilobular hemangioma (bird) (Courtesy of Julie M. Jorns, M.D.)

Benign breast duct (Courtesy of Kristen E. Muller, D.O.)

PDL1 SP142: positive (IC: 5%), expression observed in both immune cell (lower right) and tumor cell component (upper left). Immune cell staining is punctate and granular. Tumor cell staining pattern is linear, circumferential.(Courtesy of Gary Tozbikian, M.D.)

8 September 2021: Pathologists’ Directory Highlights

For pathologists, residents and fellows to get their own entry in our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists, please fill out our survey. It only takes a few minutes to sign up, and then our staff will compose a free webpage for you. All who sign up for the Directory by 31 October 2021 are eligible for our drawing for one $100 and five $50 gift cards (Amazon or Starbucks). Winners will be chosen at random.

This week we are highlighting the Directory entries of pathologists from Harvard Medical School, which is in the top 10 institutions for Directory signups.

Favorite Images

Leiomyoma (Courtesy of Kyle M. Devins, M.D.)

Acute demyelinating encephalomyelitis (ADEM) (Courtesy of Maria Martinez-Lage, M.D.)

Peutz-Jegher polyp in an appendix (Courtesy of Monika Vyas, M.B.B.S.)

1 September 2021: Pathologists’ Directory Highlights

For pathologists, residents and fellows to get their own entry in our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists, please fill out our survey. It only takes a few minutes to sign up, and then our staff will compose a free webpage for you.

This week we are highlighting the Directory entries of pathologists from Emory University, which is a leader in Directory signups.

Words of Wisdom

As soon as you tell the attending you did not see any mitotic figures, the attending is about to show you very obvious mitotic figures. (Courtesy of Kari Broder, D.O.)

Favorite Images

Hyaline vascular Castleman disease (Courtesy of Kyle Bradley, M.D., M.S.)

Multipolar mitotic figure (Courtesy of Kari Broder, D.O.)

Liver: Visitor from outer space (Courtesy of Romil Saxena, M.D.)

25 August 2021: Pathologists’ Directory Highlights

To get your own entry in our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists, please take our survey. It only takes a few minutes to sign up, and then our staff will compose a free webpage for you.

This week we are highlighting the Directory entries of pathologists from India.

Words of Wisdom

If you don’t know it… you can’t see it. (Courtesy of Pankaj Mishra, M.D.)

Favorite Images

Polyoma viral inclusion in post transplant kidney (Courtesy of Srinivas Chakravarthy N., M.D.)

Fetus-in-fitu, the incorporation of one or more partially developed fetuses
into the body of an otherwise normally developed fetus. (Courtesy of Dhiraj B. Nikumbh, M.B.B.S., M.D.)

CD44 positive IHC expression in Triple Negative Breast Cancer (Courtesy of Reena Tomar, M.D.)