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By Pier Luigi DiPatre MD, Darryl Carter

This multiple-choice question-and-answer overview publication is a superb research relief for applicants getting ready for board certification. It additionally serves as an invaluable evaluate for recertification examinations in pathology. It offers a scientific evaluate of surgical pathology, with greater than six hundred multiple-choice questions emphasizing differential diagnostic points of challenge solving.

Each query specializes in a selected ailment entity or diagnostic challenge as provided in Sternberg’s Diagnostic Surgical Pathology. Questions are via solutions and succinct factors. each one bankruptcy ends with explanatory notes summarizing the most positive aspects of the pathologic stipulations lined within the questions.

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Ganglioglioma B. High-grade astrocytoma C. Low-grade astrocytoma D. Oligodendroglioma E. Primitive neuroectodermal tumor 13. The biopsy of a ring-enhancing tumor in the left parietal lobe of a 60-year-old patient reveals an astrocytic tumor (GFAP-positive) that displays marked cellular atypia, mitotic activity, areas of pseudopalisading necrosis, and multifocal microvascular hyperplasia. The diagnosis is: A. Astrocytoma, grade 1 B. Astrocytoma, grade 2 (well-differentiated astrocytoma) C. Astrocytoma, grade 3 (anaplastic astrocytoma) D.

Punched-out osteolytic lesions E. Radiolucent nidus and sclerotic rim 4. A 16-year-old male presents with swelling and pain in the right arm and fever. A mass expanding the right humerus with an onionskin pattern is identified on x-rays. A biopsy reveals the tumor shown in this high-power photomicrograph. There is no evidence of osteoid formation. 4 ity of tumor cells for CD99. All other immunostains are negative except for vimentin. Following resection of the tumor, which of the following steps should be carried out to support this diagnosis?

Auer rods B. Blast size C. Chromatin pattern D. Cytoplasmic features E. Presence and number of nucleoli 4. A 58-year-old male undergoes bone marrow examination because of blood cytopenia without apparent cause. The bone marrow is hypercellular with an increased number of myeloid precursors and marked erythroid hyperplasia. Clusters of immature myeloid precursors are seen in an abnormal location, far from bone trabeculae. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis? A. Chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis B.

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