Amy H. Deeken, M.D.

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Do #Christmas decorations go up in November or December?

Well in #ForensicScience its important that we approach everything from a neutral and unbiased point perspective. So our wonderful admin team made sure this held true by starting to our decorations up on Friday, and finished today!

Started PGY1 when I was 25…seemed fine to me, but everyone is different.

Today December 1st is #WorldAIDSDay.
I remember the millions who have died.
I celebrate the transformative progress that has been made.
I resolve as an HIV researcher and advocate to keep up the fight to end the HIV epidemic.
Do you know you status?
Get tested. Get treated. Get on PrEP.

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Review Article
Analysis of Protein Degradation Patterns as Biomarker to Estimate Time Since Death: Insights and Innovations

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#4n6 #forensicpathology #deathinvestigation #postmortemchanges

Last Christmas I gave you my heart

Then I died because it turns out I needed that to live

Haematoxylin and eosin stained microscopic image showing penile tissue with dense hyalinized fibrosis and dystrophic ossification, consistent with Peyronie’s disease.

Happy Friday everyone! Peyronie’s disease with dystrophic ossification - a literal boner 🍆 #PathSky #MedSky

🔬UCLA Pathology's Post-Sophomore/Junior Fellowship Program is now recruiting medical students to join our 1-Year Pathology Fellowship for 2026-2027!

#Pathology #path2path #PathSky #pathfellowship

Apply today! 👉 bit.ly/4mexWqi

What would be your diagnosis for these findings in a 30-year-old African American male with CKD stage III and proteinuria?

#DiagnoseThis #nephsky #pathsky #renal #kidneypath

Reduce variability and inconsistency in your approach to #amyloidosis diagnosis and laboratory workup! New #CAPguideline: brnw.ch/21wXMU6

#pathsky #pathology #CAPGuidelines

Fungal hyphae are more tricky to diagnose by pathology alone than yeasts

See detailed discussion here:
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#pathsky #fungal #pathology

📸 Amazing how the background parotid tissue fills in so nicely on permanent sections (it is the same block! I promise!) Can better appreciate variations in cellularity and patchy hemorrhage that contribute to the gross appearance
📸 chondroid matrix, ducts and myoeps on permanent sections

#PathSky

Cryptococcus can be diagnosed with high accuracy in surgical pathology or cytology specimens

Case 5, Table 1

#pathology #pathsky

Read the paper!
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YouTube video by Sanjay Mukhopadhyay Pathology of mesothelioma (featuring biphasic mesothelioma and talc pleurodesis)

KikoXP + WSI + videoconferencing + 3 subspecialty experts = new way to educate

#pathsky

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The Blood Bank, located in DeGowin Blood Center, processes and stores blood products for University of Iowa Health Care and associated locations. These products are used for various medical needs, such as transfusions, self-donations for future procedures, apheresis, and much more. #PathSky

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Original Study
The Recent Rise of Streptococcus Pyogenes Group A–Related Deaths in Cook County: A Case Series

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#4n6 #forensicpathology #infectiousdiseases #pathology

Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes? It hasn’t been ruled out.

Do Childhood Vaccines Cause Tornadoes? It hasn’t been ruled out.

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Research: How Men and Women Sponsor Junior Colleagues Research has shown that sponsorship tends to benefit junior employees, but its impact on sponsors is less understood. A new study, the first to examine sponsorship from a leadership perspective, revea...

Study (N=1,700) finds men sponsor others to get ahead in their own careers, choosing to sponsor only when it is a win-win for them and the protégé. Women are more likely to balance their own needs with what is best for their protégé’s career.
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Turning genes into medicines - Nature Medicine The first clinical trial of a gene therapy infusion for hemophilia B revealed unexpected findings.

“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.”
Genes-> Medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41... —r/t Eric Topol #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky #NurseSky #EMSky #PedsSky

Frozen-section-Friday:

Adult with 2 cm parotid mass sent for intraoperative consultation

📸: solitary, largely circumscribed, cut surface w internal heterogeneity
📸: touch prep - monotonous cells (myoeps) w/i basophilic matrix
📸: low mag nodule contour at frozen section

…next

#PathSky #ENTsky

Pathologists Overseas was proud to be a sponsor of the 4th Annual African Assembly of the East African Division of the International Academy of Pathology in #Kampala, #Uganda.

If you attended this year what stood out most to you? Let us know in the comments!
#Pathsky #PublicHealth #Globalhealth

Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers.

Who gets screwed: everyone else.

Four 5 cm (2") stickers, clockwise from top left: Spheroid Cells Sticker, Pomegranate Sticker, Mycoplasma Bacteria Sticker and Hooded Pitohui Neurons Sticker.

I have NEW stickers too that I'm giving away as freebies

#sciart #artsky #nephsky #medsky #pathsky #biosky

Four bright and glossy rectangle magnets featuring paintings of cells. Clockwise from top left: Small Brown Cell Drawing Magnet, Black Angry Cells Magnet, Orange Cell Drawing Magnet, Purple Cell Drawing Magnet.

The @backerkit.com Holiday Market launches in 10 days and to say we're excited is a massive understatement!!!

There'll be another chance to buy magnets featuring my Cell Paintings. Making these sparked my curiosity and led me to train to be a Scientist!

#sciart #artsky #nephsky #medsky #pathsky

Ok, but as a non-forensic pathologist, have we determined what point-blank sandwich range is? For science 🥪 #pathsky #pathology #DC

Biopsy of anterior true vocal cord, sent for intraop consult. Pt with history of glottic squamous cell ca, s/p radiation therapy. Biopsy neg for scca. However…

📸 tyrosine-like crystalloids w/i anterior macula flava (is chondroid here)
📸 TLCs not commonly seen at frozens

PMID: 39177813

#Pathsky

Adult male; White corrugated plaque on lateral oral tongue

Dx: oral hairy leukoplakia

Low: epithelial hyperplasia, shaggy corrugated parakeratotic surface, often pallor in spinous layer
High: perinuclear clearing, nuclear beading
EBV ISH (red): nuclear signal in affected cells

#PathSky

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#sciart #scicomm #biosky #medsky #pathsky #nephsky #artsky

My law firm is currently litigating 13 redistricting cases and an additional 50 voting and election cases. 63 lawsuits and those numbers are growing. While this is a lot for a firm with fewer than 60 lawyers, I am proud that we helping to defend free and fair elections and democracy in court.🗳️⚖️💪

Ready made Food bags in a row by a wall

I could not be more proud of my FM residents. In the face of the SNAP crisis, they pulled together this weekend and created family and individual meals to hand out to patients in need in our offices. 😭😭❤️. They are not splashing it all over socials, but I cannot help but share. 1/4