Tag: FRCPath
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BLACK FUNGUS WHITE FUNGUS AND YELLOW FUNGUS.
BLACK FUNGUS WHITE FUNGUS AND YELLOW FUNGUS. Advertisements COVID -19 second wave and journalism in India have introduced us to Black, white and yellow fungus. What are these originally? Let’s decode some terminilogy. 1. BLACK FUNGUS What is being referred to as black fungus? Mucor is being referred to as the black fungus. Is the…
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6 KEY POINTS FOR BOARDS – MICROPAPILLARY BREAST CARCINOMA
Micropapillary breast carcinoma is a rare variant. Micropapillary carcinoma of breast has a few unique clinical, microscopic and immunological features which aid in their differentiation from other subtypes of breast carcinoma. Let’s look at them!! 1. Tufts of cells arranged in pseudopapillae ( lack fibrovascular cores). These pseudopapillae are surrounded by empty clear spaces formed…
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6 KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER IN ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (ALL) – t(5;14)
6 KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER FOR BOARDS – ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEKUKEMIA- t(5;14) Basts harbour a translocation between IL3 and an IGH gene, resulting in variable eosinophilia This diagnosis can be made on the basis of immunophenotypic and genetic findings even if the bone marrow blast count is low. patients may present with an asymptomatic eosinophilia,…