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.

9 June 2021: Pathology Images of the Week

Here is a selection of new images from our free, online textbook:

Salivary glands > Mucoepidermoid carcinoma

Solid areas of the tumor are formed by different proportions of epidermoid (squamous) cells (red arrow), mucus cells (green arrow) and intermediate cells (yellow arrow) (histopathology, H&E stain, 10x).

Contributed by Rema A. Rao, M.D. and Saeed Asiry, M.D.

Skin melanocytic tumor > Invasive melanoma

44 year old woman with 0.8 cm nodule on her back. Scanning magnification shows a nodular melanocytic proliferation with minimal junctional component (2x).

Contributed by Michele Donati, M.D.

Skin nonmelanocytic tumor > Keratoacanthoma

An endophytic squamous proliferation with central crater filled with keratin.

Contributed by Poonam Sharma, M.B.B.S.

Bladder, ureter & renal pelvis > Urothelial carcinoma – invasive > Nested

Anastomosing, irregular, large nested and inverted growth of cytologically bland urothelium with desmoplastic stromal reaction (4x).

Contributed by Megan L. Brown, M.D. and Maria Tretiakova, M.D., Ph.D.

Esophagus > Ectopic sebaceous glands

Mature sebaceous gland within the lamina propria.

Contributed by Yukihiro Nakanishi M.D., Ph.D.

24 February 2021: Images of the Week

Here is a selection of new images from our free, online textbook:

Colon > Ischemic colitis

Low power image showing crypt injury, marked crypt dropout, lamina propria hyalinization and vascular congestion.

Contributed by Gagandeep Kaur, M.D. and Monika Vyas, M.D.

Lymphoma & related disorders > Richter syndrome

H&E of Richter syndrome, diffuse large B cell lymphoma type. Diffuse sheets of large, atypical cells with finely dispersed chromatin and prominent nuclei.

Contributed by Shahbaz Khan, M.D.

Skin nontumor > Psoriasis

Higher magnification of subcorneal pustule in pustular psoriasis with elongated and dilated capillaries in the papillary dermis. Punch biopsy from the trunk (40x).

Contributed by Viktoryia Kazlouskaya, M.D., Ph.D.

Skin melanocytic tumor > Desmoplastic melanoma

Pure type desmoplastic melanoma consisting entirely of spindle cells in a fibrous stroma without convention melanoma (100x).

Contributed by Gregory A. Hosler, M.D., Ph.D.

Stains & molecular markers > ATM

ATM immunostaining of rectal adenocarcinoma.

Contributed by Joo-Shik Shin, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.

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