MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'histology'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174615&cid=t_101335_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fimaging-that-can-reliably-distinguish-between-benign-and-malignant-pancreatic-cysts%2F2011.08.29 Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has been demonstrated to be able to differentiate between benign and potentially malignant pancreatic cysts. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Physical Sciences, Inc., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Brandeis University have published their findings in Biomedical Optics Express. In their study they used surgically removed pancreas specimens of patients with pancreatic cysts to assess them with OCT and compare the results with histology examinations. OCT was able to reveal specific morphological characteristics used to differentiate between the low-risk and high-risk cysts. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174615 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:00:53 +0100 5174615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4036955&cid=t_101335_155_f&fid=38409&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropathologyblog.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fis-it-just-me.html ... or does everyone see extramedullary hematopoesis in the majority of their chronic subdural hematoma specimens? Here's yet another example that landed on my desk today: (Source: neuropathology blog) neuropathology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4036955 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:04:00 +0100 4036955 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4018450&cid=t_101335_155_f&fid=38409&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropathologyblog.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F09%2Fsomething-you-dont-see-every-day.html A binucleated cerebellar Purkinjee cell: (Source: neuropathology blog) neuropathology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4018450 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:38:00 +0100 4018450 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4013207&cid=t_101335_93_f&fid=38821&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheapstudent.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F09%2Ftrouble-with-tissues.html I don't think I've ever met a person who could identify tissues of the body on sight on their first day of trying. And yet many A&P students get frustrated just because they can't "get it" after only one day of trying. Identifying tissue types by sight is difficult for everyone, at first—for  several reasons.First, each example is unique. No two examples look exactly alike, just like no two fingerprints look exactly alike.So you have to learn to look for patterns. And you can't do that until you've looked at a lot of examples. And that takes time—and a lot of practice.Second, not all examples are stained in exactly the same way. Even when the same general type of staining is used, a lot depends on the quality of the sample, the quality of the stain used, and how well the prepa... The A and P Student blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4013207 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0100 4013207 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3052411&cid=t_101335_155_f&fid=38409&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropathologyblog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Fmarathon-brain-cutting-session-at-ucsd.html The Brain Observatory at the University of California San Diego is today beginning a 30-hour brain cutting session with a live online stream of the procedure wherein the brain of H.M., an amnestic patient, is being thinly sliced from front to back into whole-mount frozen histologic sections. Each brain slice will be approximately 70 microns thick, about the thickness of a human hair. An average-sized brain produces 2,600 to 3,000 such slices. The UCSD Brain Observatory, headed by Dr. Jacopo Annese, is dedicated to the study of the architecture of the human brain using multiple complementary imaging modalities, including autopsy. Thanks to Thomasina Bailey for alerting me to this extraordinary brain cutting event! (Source: neuropathology blog) neuropathology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3052411 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:53:00 +0100 3052411 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2387245&cid=t_101335_155_f&fid=38409&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropathologyblog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fbest-post-of-march-09-whats-deal-with.html The next in our series of "Best Posts of the Month" is for March, 2009. I chose this one as the best of the month partly because of the interesting comments it elicited from Dr. Doug Miller. Here's the post from March 19th:FrontalCortex.com features lots of neuropathology, including podcasts from one of our favorite neuropathologists, Dr. Mark Cohen. In a podcast on demyelinating diseases, Dr. Cohen clarifies questions I've long harbored about the so-called subcortical U-fibers. The photomicrograph above (from the textbook Neuropathology by Ellison and Love) shows a blue myelin stain of an adrenoleukodystrophy case where the subcortical U-fibers are spared. The following is a transcription of Dr. Cohen's insightful comments on this topic. I should first clarify that when Dr. Cohen talks ab... neuropathology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2387245 Mon, 04 May 2009 11:07:00 +0100 2387245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349807&cid=t_101335_155_f&fid=38409&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropathologyblog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fwhats-deal-with-subcortical-u-fibers.html FrontalCortex.com features lots of neuropathology, including podcasts from one of our favorite neuropathologists, Dr. Mark Cohen. In a podcast on demyelinating diseases, Dr. Cohen clarifies questions I've long harbored about the so-called subcortical U-fibers. The photomicrograph above (from the textbook Neuropathology by Ellison and Love) shows a blue myelin stain of an adrenoleukodystrophy case where the subcortical U-fibers are spared. The following is a transcription of Dr. Cohen's insightful comments on this topic. I should first clarify that when Dr. Cohen talks about the subcortical U-fibers being the "slowest myelinating fibers within the nervous system", he is not talking about conduction velocity, but rather about how long they take during one's lifetime to get completely myelina... neuropathology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349807 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:33:00 +0100 2349807 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349815&cid=t_101335_155_f&fid=38409&url=http%3A%2F%2Fneuropathologyblog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fbest-post-of-november-08-whither.html And now for another installment of the "Best of the Month" series. In this post from November 13, 2008, I wrote about the alleged existence of polio-related Cowdry B inclusions. No one has yet been able to produce a photomicrograph of such an inclusion, despite having increased the reward from $10 all the way up to $12. Anyway, here's the post: In a recent post about poliomyelitis, the illustrious Dr. John Donahue of Brown University (pictured) correctly pointed out that I did not mention the presence of Cowdry B inclusions in my histological description of the disease. Having never seen polio under the microscope, I went looking in textbooks and on the web for a photomicrograph of a polio-related Cowdry B inclusion. Failing in my search, I turned to the esteemed Dr. Tom Smith of the Uni... neuropathology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349815 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:31:00 +0100 2349815 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1035016&cid=t_101335_105_f&fid=36673&url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb2097.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fweb-20-tool-to-study-histology-by-your.html I am thinking about what we can learn at home without the necessity of moving out of there, and without the necessity of spending lot of money in tuition fees, books, transportation, etc. While doing that I start with these posts. The links I put here are all around the blog, but because I notice people do not spend time checking all the blog, I decide to select the best links and share them directly with all of you. This post is about Histology, like many other courses of basic sciences I studied at medical school, I did it in black and white only, from photocopied books I could afford. Now internet allows new generation of doctors avoid this, and study from really good material they can access for free. The photo above is "Santiago Ramón y Cajal at work", to learn more about him click i... Web 2.0 and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1035016 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:10:00 +0100 1035016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=477686&cid=t_101335_105_f&fid=34897&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpulmonaryroundtable.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F01%2Ffollow-up-to-vocal-cord-paralysis.html A new question from anonymous regarding the case on vocal cord paralysisHas anyone scoped his GI tract to R.O esophageal disease? (Source: Pulmonary Roundtable) Pulmonary Roundtable blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=477686 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:01:00 +0100 477686