17 May 2024: Weekly Roundup #145

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. New Board of Reviewers Appointments

Dr. Mark Giffen was recently appointed to our new Board of Reviewers for Autopsy & Forensic Pathology. Dr. Giffen is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Atrium Health – Wake Forest School of Medicine. He obtained his D.O. degree at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine before completing his anatomic and clinical pathology residency at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. He completed his fellowship at the Office of the Medical Investigator in Albuquerque, NM. He then returned to North Carolina to practice as an academic forensic pathologist. His areas of interest include atypical ballistic injuries and advanced postmortem imaging techniques.

Dr. Barina Aqil was recently appointed to our new Board of Reviewers for Hematopathology. Dr. Aqil is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. She completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston as well as fellowships in hematopathology and head & neck pathology at Washington University in St Louis.

2. Server Update

Please note that we underwent a server update over the last week, which may account for slower loading times and foreign characters on certain pages. If you encounter any issues, please click the “Comment” feature in the lower navigation bar (see below) and let us know.

3. Images of the Week

Here are some of our favorite images from topics posted recently:

Breast > Acinic cell carcinoma: Tumor cells with microglandular architecture and some with prominent eosinophilic cytoplasm.
Contributed by Miralem Mrkonjic, M.D., Ph.D.

Ovary > Steroid cell tumor: The tumor is well defined with sparse stroma. Eosinophilic cytoplasm can be appreciated at low power.
Contributed by Fatemeh Ghazanfari Amlashi, M.D. and Tamara Kalir, M.D., Ph.D.

3 May 2024: Weekly Roundup #144

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. 2024 Q1 Pathology Jobs Report

The first quarter PathologyOutlines.com Jobs report for 2024 has been posted here. For this quarter, PathologyOutlines.com listed 398 full or part time pathologist job postings, which form the basis for the statistics within the report. 

We excluded postings that were only for locum, Ph.D., residency, fellowship or nonpathologist positions. Visit pathologyoutlines.com/pathjobs2024q1.html for full details of the report.

2. New Board of Reviewers Appointment

Dr. Jieli (Shirley) Li was recently appointed to our new Board of Reviewers for Clinical Chemistry. Dr. Li holds the position of Assistant Professor-Clinical in the Department of Pathology and serves as Co-Director of the Clinical Chemistry & Toxicology Laboratory at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Li obtained her M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Shanghai Jiao-Tong University School of Medicine and completed her fellowship training in clinical chemistry at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Li also plays a vital role in participating in guidelines writing for the Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and serving on the Expert Panel Committee of CLSI. Furthermore, Dr. Li contributes to the field as an inspector for the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and is actively involved with CAP’s Chemistry Committee.

3. Images of the Week

Here are some of our favorite images from topics posted recently:

Skin melanocytic tumor > Pediatric melanoma: PRAME immunostain demonstrates moderate staining (200x).
Contributed by Idy Tam, M.D. and Bethany R. Rohr, M.D.

Skin nonmelanocytic tumor > Adenoid cystic carcinoma (primary cutaneous): Skin, left scapula, biopsy: adenoid cystic carcinoma. A common growth pattern is cribriform, characterized by back to back luminal glandular spaces with punched out central lumina.
Contributed by Haya Homsi, M.D., M.P.H. and Shira Ronen, M.D.

26 April 2024: Weekly Roundup #143

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. Curing Cancer Network April Newsletter

Make sure to read our Curing Cancer Network April newsletter here. If you’re interested in more, sign up to have these newsletters delivered directly to your inbox at lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/onz6IND.

2. New Board of Reviewers Appointments

Dr. Anna Biernacka was recently appointed to our new Board of Reviewers for Breast Pathology. Dr. Biernacka is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Chicago Medicine. She earned her M.D., Ph.D. from the Medical University of Lodz in Poland and then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She then completed a residency in anatomic pathology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, followed by fellowships in cytopathology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and breast pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Dr. Carlos Murga-Zamalloa was recently appointed to our new Board of Reviewers for Hematopathology. Dr. Murga-Zamalloa is an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He obtained his M.D. at San Martin de Porres University (Lima, Peru). Dr. Murga-Zamalloa completed an anatomic and clinical pathology residency and a hematopathology fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Murga-Zamalloa has an NIH funded research laboratory that focuses on the biology of T cell lymphomas, and he participates in multi-institutional international research projects to discover novel biomarkers and therapies in T cell lymphomas.  

3. Images of the Week

Here are some of our favorite images from topics posted recently:

Cervix > Clear cell carcinoma: Papillary pattern: papillae with central hyaline fibrous tissue cores are lined by hobnail cells with hyperchromatic nuclei (200x).
Contributed by Nadia Hameed, M.D.

CNS & pituitary tumors > Ependymoma: Perivascular pseudorosette with tightly packed processes is highly characteristic on smear prep.
Contributed by Chunyu Cai, M.D., Ph.D.

23 April 2024: Superpages

Perhaps you’ve noticed the “Superpages” section on the main landing page for each chapter in our textbook (just above the alphabetical topic index) and wondered what they are. Superpages are just one of the many useful features of PathologyOutlines.com’s free, online pathology textbook.

These 3 hyperlinks (entire chapter, images and virtual slides) allow you to view a chapter’s contents in a few different ways.

Entire Chapter 

Clicking this link produces a combination of all the text and images in a chapter on a single web page. While it may be an enormous amount of information, you can scroll through it without opening any new tabs or windows. Moreover, this feature is useful for searching for a particular term in a chapter. You can also copy and paste to produce a personal document based on your interests (please see our Copyright page for information on fair use).

Images 

Clicking this link produces all the images (and their supporting descriptive text) from the chapter onto a single webpage. This includes diagrams / tables, radiology images, clinical images, gross images, microscopic (histologic) images, electron microscopy images, videos, etc. You can select which types of images to include (e.g., all micro images only) or include all of them.

Virtual Slides

Clicking this link produces all the virtual slides available for this chapter onto a single web page.

If you have any comments or questions regarding superpages on PathologyOutlines.com, please comment below or contact comments@pathologyoutlines.com.

19 April 2024: Weekly Roundup #142

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. 2023 Year in Review Video (Part 2)

We have posted a second YouTube video highlighting the significant changes that were made to PathologyOutlines.com in 2023. View this new video at https://youtu.be/8veWcCL8qs0.

2. New Board of Reviewers Appointments

Dr. Carla Ellis was recently appointed to our new Board of Reviewers for Renal Pathology. Dr. Ellis is an Associate Professor of Pathology at Northwestern University in Chicago. She obtained her M.D. at the University of Nevada School of Medicine and attended graduate school at the University of Maryland at Baltimore. She completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine. She subsequently did fellowships in genitourinary and medical renal pathology at Johns Hopkins as well.

Dr. Caroline Underwood was recently appointed to our new Board of Reviewers for Dermatopathology. Dr. Underwood is an Associate Professor of Pathology at ProPath Associates in Dallas, Texas. She obtained her M.D. at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. She then completed her anatomic and clinical pathology residency at Duke University, where she remained for her fellowship in dermatopathology.

3. Images of the Week

Here are some of our favorite images from topics posted recently:

Soft tissue > Inflammatory leiomyosarcoma: Intermediate power showing spindle and epithelioid cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and prominent nucleoli with admixed inflammatory cells.
Contributed by Elizabeth A. Montgomery, M.D.

Lymphoma & related disorders > Systemic EBV+ T cell lymphoma of childhood: EBER in situ hybridization for EBV demonstrates that the lymphocytes are EBV positive.
Contributed by Yoon Kyung Jeon, M.D.

5 April 2024: Weekly Roundup #141

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. 2023 Year in Review Video (Part 1)

We have posted a YouTube video highlighting the significant changes that were made to PathologyOutlines.com in 2023. View it at youtu.be/z3Zv9qGfwig?si=QZRpn8Oe9Biaon2n.

2. Worldwide Directory of Pathologists Q4 Report

The Q4 report for our Worldwide Directory of Pathologists is at pathologyoutlines.com/directoryreport2023q4.html. It provides information not available elsewhere, including pathologist totals by U.S. state and Canadian province, subspecialty totals, the largest pathology institutions and the most popular pathologist profiles. We are initially focusing on pathologists in the U.S. and Canada. We have now included totals by gender, age and status (trainee, faculty, retired) so make sure your profile is current by visiting pathologyoutlines.com/directory.

Contact Dr. Pernick with any questions or suggestions regarding the directory at at Nat@PathologyOutlines.com.

3. Images of the Week

Here are some of our favorite images from topics posted recently:

Ovary > Steroid cell tumor: The tumor is well defined with lobular pattern at low power.
Contributed by Fatemeh Ghazanfari Amlashi, M.D. and Tamara Kalir, M.D., Ph.D.

Breast > Acinic cell carcinoma: Tumor cells with microglandular architecture and some with prominent eosinophilic cytoplasm.
Contributed by Miralem Mrkonjic, M.D., Ph.D.

22 March 2024: Weekly Roundup #140

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. USCAP 2024

Visit the PathologyOutlines poster on Fellowship trends at USCAP, abstract #1870, “Pathology Fellowship Trends from 2015-2022: Less Interest and More Openings”, poster #63, on Monday, March 25, 2024 from 1:00 – 4:30 p.m. at the Baltimore Convention Center Exhibit Hall.

Make sure to also stop by the PathologyOutlines.com booth (#632) from March 25 – 27, 2024 to speak with our team and snag some giveaways. Read more here.

2. Laboratory Developed Tests Topic

What’s the recent buzz on laboratory developed tests (LDT) all about? Visit our new topic to learn more about the impending FDA rule, how we got here and how it may change pathology and lab practice: pathologyoutlines.com/topic/managementlabdevelopedtests.html

3. What’s New in Thyroid Pathology

We have posted our most recent What’s New in Thyroid Pathology newsletter by Drs. Andrey Bychkov and Chan Kwon Jung. This edition of our What’s New in Pathology newsletter focuses on updates from the new WHO classification and Bethesda system. You can read our past newsletters and subscribe to all of our future What’s New in Pathology newsletters on our Newsletters page.

13 March 2023: Follow Us On Social Media

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1 March 2024: Weekly Roundup #139

Here’s what you need to know about PathologyOutlines.com this week:

1. February 2024 Curing Cancer Network Newsletter

Read the February 2024 Curing Cancer Network newsletter in its entirety here: myemail.constantcontact.com/Curing-Cancer-Network-Newsletter.html?soid=1102437360197&aid=YjmUFJ_aEQM

To sign up for this newsletter that comes out every 1 – 2 months, visit lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/onz6IND.

2. Pathology Jobs Report

The fourth quarter PathologyOutlines.com Jobs report for 2023 has been posted on our Jobs page here. For this quarter, PathologyOutlines.com listed 339 full or part time pathologist job postings, which form the basis for the statistics within the report. We excluded postings that were only for locum, Ph.D., residency, fellowship or nonpathologist positions. Click here for full details of the report.

3. How Metastases Arise Part 3b-1: What Cells Normally Migrate

In this series of essays, Dr. Pernick explores what we know about metastases and speculates on future knowledge and treatment. In one of his recent essays, Dr. Pernick discusses the cells that normally migrate. This is important because cancer cells hijack the migration mechanisms used by these cells when they metastasize. You can read this essay at pathologyoutlines.com/ccnblog/howmetastasesarise3b-1.html.

4. How Metastases Arise, Part 3b-2: How Cells Normally Migrate

Dr. Pernick has written an essay describing the process through which cells normally migrate in the human body, which you can read at pathologyoutlines.com/ccnblog/howmetastasesarise3b-2.html. This is not only important in understanding how our body normally works but also in understanding cancer because the malignant process hijacks these mechanisms to produce metastases, the major cause of cancer deaths.

28 February 2024: Most Popular Topics at PathologyOutlines.com

When you write for PathologyOutlines.com, your work is widely read by the worldwide community of pathologists. In 2023, there were 28 topics with over 100,000 page views, which are listed below. We also had 1735 topics with over 5,000 page views in 2023 (40% of all completed topics).

Most popular topics in 2023 (28 topics with > 100,000 page views versus 11 topics in 2022 and 2 topics in 2021):

1. Basal cell carcinoma (213,433 views)
2. Endometrioid carcinoma (183,578 views)
3. Fibroadenoma (161,826 views)
4. Dermatofibroma (148,759 views)
5. Pleomorphic adenoma (147,196 views)
6. Meningioma (140,223 views)
7. Neurofibroma-general (139,002 views)
8. Leiomyoma-general (138,612 views)
9. Endometrial hyperplasia (135,455 views)
10. Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (134,849 views)
11. Invasive urothelial carcinoma (134,728 views)
12. Seborrheic keratosis (132,446 views)
13. Squamous cell carcinoma (132,017 views)
14. Hepatocellular carcinoma overview (124,092 views)
15. Papillary thyroid carcinoma overview (123,897 views)
16. Phyllodes tumor (122,078 views)
17. Schwannoma (121,591 views)
18. High grade serous carcinoma (120,080 views)
19. Invasive breast cancer of no special type (NST) (117,004 views)
20. Epidermal (epidermoid) type cyst (112,340 views)
21. Adenocarcinoma overview (110,815 views)
22. Serous cystadenoma, adenofibroma and surface papilloma (110,640 views)
23. Uterus – Anatomy & histology (109,039 views)
24. Solitary fibrous tumor (108,600 views)
25. GIST (106,792 views)
26. Prostate – Adenocarcinoma (106,290 views)
27. Granulosa cell tumor-adult (103,620 views)
28. Invasive melanoma (100,625 views)