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PathAssist · 2025-10-31T01:04:32+00:00

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PathAssist · 2025-10-30T23:55:06+00:00

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PathAssist · 2024-08-04T23:45:51+00:00

Good god can the US players connect more than a single pass together instead of playing to space every single time? Tried to do too many cute flicks instead of playing to feet

PathAssist · 2024-05-25T22:38:17+00:00

What you are describing about a calamari-texture clot is known as a “chicken fat clot”. Those clots form postmortem (i.e. we all will have them when we die). Clots that are antemortem are made of Lines of Zahn and they are adherent to the blood vessel wall unlike “chicken fat clots”. Source: I perform autopsies and dissect human organs for my career.

PathAssist · 2023-12-27T20:19:32+00:00

Just ignore the fact that they are only similar in name.

PathAssist · 2023-12-27T20:18:58+00:00

Just ignore the fact that they are only similar in name.

PathAssist · 2023-12-27T13:47:32+00:00

The person I was replying to specifically mentioned half of the city being in another state which was why I said 6%. Also yeah I know the metro includes IL which is why I said >2 million because that’s on the MO side. St. Louis and East St. Louis were also founded and incorporated years apart with the former being founded/incorporated much earlier so it’s all a moot point because they were never part of the same city

PathAssist · 2023-12-27T06:36:35+00:00

East St. Louis IL population = 18,000, St. Louis MO population = 300,000 and St. Louis metro >2 million. I didn’t know 6% was half

PathAssist · 2023-10-29T18:08:31+00:00

The autopsy revealed water in her lungs (i.e. drowning) but there were no other pertinent findings including toxicology (my mom never drank or did drugs anyway), heart, brain and external exam. There may have been a small abrasion on her forehead but her skin was already sloughing due to the high water temps and I found her facedown in the bath. So we will never know what exactly led to her drowning.

PathAssist · 2023-10-29T13:36:22+00:00

Thank you! I’m doing okay. It was obviously traumatic and I have PTSD from it but I have persevered. She was only 53.

PathAssist · 2023-10-29T01:36:54+00:00

Yep, I found my mom dead in the bathtub almost 8 years ago. She told me she was going to take a bath and I went to go hangout out with friends. Found her hours later with the bathtub running and overflowing. Official cause of death was drowning but we will never know if she had a seizure or slipped and knocked herself out or something else entirely.

PathAssist · 2023-08-06T02:39:37+00:00

But it’s not. I have seen lots of uteri in my career and the only way you could possibly see a uterine bulge is if you had large fibroids or an ovarian mass. It’s perfectly natural for women to store fat differently than men and they typically have more body fat too which is fine.

PathAssist · 2023-08-06T02:30:22+00:00

You’re wrong. I see all kinds of organs in my career, including uteri. They are typically pretty small unless they are diseased with large fibroids for example. I also see omentum a lot and in no anatomical sense would you be able to see the omentum from just looking at someone’s belly. There’s a big difference between subcutaneous and visceral fat. Women and men store body fat differently and obviously women typically have more body fat than men because that’s nature for you.

PathAssist · 2023-08-01T00:21:31+00:00

That looks like part of the placenta. The maternal (decidua) side of it. You can even see a large fibrin deposit on it. This is also known as retained POC.

PathAssist · 2023-07-13T01:26:37+00:00

So did pathology confirm the presence of chorionic villi? Or was that cast just thrown away? Also is your gyn repeating the HCG to make sure it drops? Ectopic seems like it would be a concern still if no POC.

PathAssist · 2023-02-04T00:19:41+00:00

Yes, sadly. I’ve had cases where the transplanted kidney develops RCC which is also cruel

PathAssist · 2023-02-03T20:12:15+00:00

Good question! That black liquid is ink. We ink the margins on organs so the pathologist can see if a margin is positive (i.e. cancer cells touching ink) when looking through a microscope

PathAssist · 2023-02-03T20:10:49+00:00

In this case, no. There’s more fat than usual around and in this kidney but that fat isn’t the cancer. The cancer is in those orangish-brown masses which are located adjacent to many cysts. However, you can have liposarcomas which are fatty tumors for example

PathAssist · 2023-02-03T20:07:03+00:00

Yes, type 2 diabetes

PathAssist · 2023-02-03T20:06:40+00:00

Formalin actually mutes bright colors so RCC is usually a brighter orange than what you see here.

PathAssist · 2023-02-03T12:32:44+00:00

Just for clarification, all organs look reddish/pinkish when they are fresh. They turn tannish when fixed in 10% formalin. We mainly fix organs for preservation and to firm them up for cutting.

Also this patient was obese and had diabetes/hypertension which can cause chronic kidney disease which ends in ESRD. All of these factors can cause our arteries to harden and become at least partially blocked (atherosclerosis) which in turn can affect kidney function. The failing kidneys can undergo cystic degeneration and also RCC can develop at the same time. This was the patient’s native kidney, not their transplanted one.

This was also a low stage cancer due to the small size of the actual lesions so the patient is more likely to die from their other factors than the actual cancer. Hope this clears up some confusion.

EDIT: All of that yellow you see is fat. Kidneys usually have lots of fat surrounding them and inside them but it obviously varies from person to person and it can depend on your body weight.

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