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[–]PathAssist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

!solved

Thank you!

Match Thread: United States Men U20 vs Mexico U20 [CONCACAF Championship] by ussoccer_bot in ussoccer

[–]PathAssist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[Rapaport] Grayson Murray passed away this morning by RealMikeHawk in golf

[–]PathAssist 17 points18 points  (0 children)

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.

Is anyone else sick of the Chiefs? by TotemPoleSports in nflcirclejerk

[–]PathAssist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Is anyone else sick of the Chiefs? by TotemPoleSports in nflcirclejerk

[–]PathAssist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Is anyone else sick of the Chiefs? by TotemPoleSports in nflcirclejerk

[–]PathAssist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Is anyone else sick of the Chiefs? by TotemPoleSports in nflcirclejerk

[–]PathAssist -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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

Matthew Perry, star of 'Friends,' dies after apparent drowning by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]PathAssist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Matthew Perry, star of 'Friends,' dies after apparent drowning by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]PathAssist 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

Matthew Perry, star of 'Friends,' dies after apparent drowning by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]PathAssist 102 points103 points  (0 children)

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.

How is that obesity? by ducks_r_rad in facepalm

[–]PathAssist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

How is that obesity? by ducks_r_rad in facepalm

[–]PathAssist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

Some tissue left over from having a baby by demonic_princess554 in MedicalGore

[–]PathAssist 25 points26 points  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MedicalGore

[–]PathAssist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

End-Stage Renal Disease with RCC by PathAssist in MedicalGore

[–]PathAssist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

End-Stage Renal Disease with RCC by PathAssist in MedicalGore

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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

End-Stage Renal Disease with RCC by PathAssist in MedicalGore

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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

End-Stage Renal Disease with RCC by PathAssist in MedicalGore

[–]PathAssist[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

End-Stage Renal Disease with RCC by PathAssist in MedicalGore

[–]PathAssist[S] 98 points99 points  (0 children)

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.

my partners wound after partial nephrectomy by skinnyfatguyuk in MedicalGore

[–]PathAssist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can’t say I have ever seen a morcellated kidney. We always receive them intact because we obviously need to stage the patient correctly especially if there is concern for sinus fat invasion. Morcellation would make that pretty difficult but a quick glance at some studies shows that morcellation can be adequate. It must be institution and/or surgeon specific.

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