Kalyani Bambal

STAT6 Can Be Used in the Diagnosis of Hodgkin Lymphoma;... : Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology the STAT6 (EP325) immunostain, diagnosing Hodgkin lymphoma, its staining frequency, immunolocalization, and its relationship with EBV. Sixty-eight patients representing each Hodgkin lymphoma subtype w...

STAT6 Can Be Used in the Diagnosis of Hodgkin Lymphoma; There Are Differences in Expression Among Subtypes journals.lww.com/appliedimmun...

Distinct levels of DDIT3 Amplification in Dedifferentiated... : Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology diagnostic tool for accurate diagnosis. While DDIT3 rearrangement is a known characteristic of myxoid LPS, its amplification in DDLPS has not been extensively studied. To investigate this, we evaluate...

Distinct levels of DDIT3 Amplification in Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma Developing After DDIT3 Rearrangement in Myxoid Liposarcoma journals.lww.com/appliedimmun...

Investigating Biomarkers in Primary Tumors and Lymph Node... : Applied Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Morphology tases. A total of 60 TSCC biopsy samples, 20 primary metastatic, 20 lymph node metastatic, and 20 nonmetastatic, were immunohistochemically stained to analyze MCM2, CD44, and E-cadherin expression. Ex...

Investigating Biomarkers in Primary Tumors and Lymph Node Metastases in Tongue Squamous Cell Carcinoma: An Immunohistochemical Perspective journals.lww.com/appliedimmun...

Nasopharyngeal mass, adult male.

Dx: Hyalinizing clear cell ca.

➡️Nests of eosinophilic and/or clear cells. Helpful: 2 ‘types’ of fibrosis (dense hyalinization and fibrolamellar stromal fibrosis).

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Tracheal adenoid cystic carcinoma. At high magnification (next 2 pics), areas of ‘signet-ring like’ or vacuolated, clear cell change is noted in ducts. Unknown clinical significance but when present in small biopsy material, may lead to diagnostic uncertainty.

PMID: 23379326
PMID: 39235305 (fig 3)

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Subspecialty: GI / liver
Diagnosis: FNA Liver - adenocarcinoma

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Just published! Check out this latest article 👉🏻 HER2 amplification is rare (1.7%) in low-grade, tubule-forming breast cancers with 2+ HER2 IHC; findings suggest ISH may be unnecessary in this subset #breastpath #IHCpath #pathsky

All that palisades etc etc.Seen an endometrial stromal sarcoma with crazy palisading just like this.

#PathSky Middle aged woman, leg mass. It all looks like this. More nuclear palisading/ Verocay bodies than you’ve seen in your entire career. Nerve sheath? S100/Sox10 negative. LMS? Negative for all the muscle markers. Any other ideas?

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Desmoid Fibromatosis With TP53 Mutation and Striking Nuclear Pleomorphism - PubMed Desmoid fibromatosis is a myofibroblastic neoplasm of intermediate biologic potential, which has a strong predilection for local recurrence but does not metastasize. Arranged in long, sweeping fascicl...

So- desmoid fibromatosis with bizarre cells and p53 mutant pattern- r/o Li-Fraumeni syndrome.

Happy Friday!

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Beta-catenin

#PathSky Abdominal wall mass, middle aged woman. Women basically only get 3 abdominal wall tumors, so it’s got to be a desmoid, DFSP or endometriosis. Classic desmoid morphology, aberrant nuclear beta-catenin. I can hear the cries of “boring..”

Beautiful MIFS thanks.

This of course is what we now call “myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma”. Originally reported as “Inflammatory myxohyaline tumor of distal extremities with virocyte or Reed-Sternberg-like cells”. I think this older name helps us remember the distinctive diagnostic features of this sarcoma.

#PathSky 43M, forearm mass. At first glance, it looks like some kind of inflammatory process, maybe a synovitis with plasma cells, fibrosis and foamy macrophages.

Degenerating vegetable. Likely a ruptured diverticulitis with a big reactive soft tissue mass. Happy Friday!!

Those of you following my cases know the answer is usually “look at the slides some more”.

#PathSky 45 with a forearm skin tumor. Highly cellular, monomorphic spindle cell tumor with a “packeted” pattern and deep, nodular lymphoid aggregates.

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Figure from "Claudin 18.2 Immunohistochemistry Expression in Gastric Cancer: A Systematic Review” by Lop Gros, et al.

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Awesome!

Incredible "Schwannomatoid" pattern in a monophasic synovial sarcoma. #skypath #pathsky #BSTPath #Sarcoma

YouTube video by Sanjay Mukhopadhyay Thoracic Pathology Unknown Slide Conference Feb 2019

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Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Vaccine ingredients don’t cause autism. Vaccines don’t worsen autism symptoms.

Millions of data points over decades show this.

A paper published in a “journal” that funded the “study” doesn’t supersede reality.

Stop spreading lies that harm people.

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Link to the paper that should help everyone diagnose keratoacanthoma with greater confidence.

Recurrent novel HMGA2-NCOR2 fusions characterize a subset of keratin-positive giant cell-rich soft tissue tumors - PubMed Giant cell tumors of soft tissue (GCT-ST) are rare low-grade neoplasms that were at one time thought to represent the soft tissue counterparts of GCT of bone (GCT-B) but are now known to lack the H3F3...

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Xanthogranulomatous Epithelial Tumors and Keratin-Positive Giant Cell Rich Tumors of Soft Tissue and Bone: Two Sides of the Same Coin - PubMed Xanthogranulomatous epithelial tumor is a recently described soft tissue tumor characterized by subcutaneous location, partial encapsulation, a xanthogranulomatous inflammatory cell infiltrate, and ke...

We eventually figured out that this was a new entity, “xanthogranulomatous epithelial tumor”. Locally aggressive, non-metastasizing. They turn out to have unique HMGA2::NCOR fusions. “Keratin-positive giant cell tumor of bone” is the same thing. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38278607/

#PathSky It’s interesting how we discover things sometimes. On this particular Sunday, I got an email from an Ortho Onc asking what a JXG was. “Just a benign skin tumor.” “Well, this is deep and eroding bone.” “Erm, let me look at it…” Mostly looks like JXG, but what are those eosinophilic cells?

CD31

C-MYC

CD68

#PathSky 67F, s/p lumpectomy and RT 5 yrs ago for DCIS, now with a mass IN the breast. The outside was worried about post RT angiosarcoma, in part because of the CD31 and C-MYC. This is just fat necrosis with CD31-pos macrophages. 1- post RTAS occurs in the SKIN, not breast. 2- macs express CD31.

Strongy.

Super little finding. Patient presented with abdominal pain. Here’s a gastric biopsy… #pathsky #pathology #GIPathology #histology #histopathology