The Microscopic MinuteÂ
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You don't see the color orange everyday in cytology.
That is, unless you look at a lot of bleeding lesions/masses!
Hematoidin is a g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s orange, typically rhomboid crystal that looks like ...
Have a cool one for you today!
Blood smear from a thrombocytopenic horse. đ´
Well well well, what are those doing in there?! This explains her thrombocytopenia....
These are...(drum roll please)... ...
TL;DR - The Veterinary Cytology Schoolhouse is now part of Pocket Pathologist!
A message from Dr. Kate Baker (founder of Veterinary Cytology Schoolhouse and Pocket Pathologist):
In 2018, I founded t...
A 7 year old Pit Bull Terrier presents to Internal Medicine with an unexplained regenerative anemia.Â
I LOVE cases like this where the answer is right there in the blood smear.Â
Check out what was f...
Did you know that you can see collagen in mast cell tumors? And sometimes, it's A LOT!
This is a case where there was a ton of collagen present. This happens when collagen is damaged due to degranulati...
You never want a pathologist to say your cytology is "beautiful".
It's just one of those weird things in the path world-- it's hard not to appreciate the "beauty" in the cytology, even when you know it...
