Pathology
Karyotyping
Karyotyping is a method for studying the chromosomes of an organizm. Karyotype is a standardised arrangement of metaphasic chromosomes that have been photographed and arranged in the order
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Category: Pathology
Pathology
Hyaline change
Hyaline change is a homogenous glassy pink appearance in the histological sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin. It can be due to intracellular accumulation of certain substances as
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Pathology
Anticoagulants and their uses
The commonly used anticoagulants are: heparin, citrate, oxalate, EDTA. Citrate is used for the storage of blood. Heparin is for taking blood samples for ABG estimation. Oxalate and
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Pathology
Types of infarcts
Infarcts can be classified into red (hemorarragic) white (anemic) infarcts as well as septic and bland infarcts. Red infarcts can occur in lungs while infarcts occur in the
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Pathology
Fatty change
Fatty change is the accumulation of lipid droplets within the parenchymal cells. It usually occurs in the liver as the liver has great involvement in fat metabolism. Other
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Medicine
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
It is a heterogenous group of conditions with cytopenias, hypercellular / dysplastic marrow and is a premalignant condition. Dyserythropoesis manifest as ring sideroblasts. In MDS, there is decreased
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Pathology
Hurthle cells or Askanazy cells
Hurthle cells or Askanazy cells seen in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
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Microbiology
Haemophilus influenzae
It is a small gram negative bacillus. Haemophilus influenzae in blood agar Haemophilus influenzae meningitis
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Pathology
Malignancies of the oesophagus show early lymphatic spread because
Oesophagus has rich longitudinaly running lymphatics which facilitate metastatic spread. Also oesphagus is the only area of the GIT which has no serosal covering which is also favourable
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