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Welcome to Virchows Liste!

Introduction

• Basics.
• Stains.
• Immunohistochemical staining.

Clinical

• Clinical notes.
• Oncology.
• Physical exam.

Pathology links

• Pathology links - a list of other pathology related sites.

Mixed bag of stuff

Organs

• Eye.
• Thymus.
• Lymph nodes.

Microorganisms

• Microorganisms.
  • Viruses.

Collections of things

• Spindle cell lesions.
• Ditzels - covers odds and ends, e.g. hernia sac.

Stuff

• Amyloid.
• Azzopardi phenomenon.

Quality

• Quality.
• Critical values.

Informatics

• Informatics - an introduction.

Software

• CoPath.
• Misys.
• Softpath.

Breast pathology

• Breast - introduction.
  • Non-invasive breast cancer.
  • Invasive breast cancer.

Detail articles

• Paget disease.

Cardiovascular pathology

• Cardiovascular pathology - a short introduction.
• Heart - covers the basics & anatomy.

Vascular disease & hypertension

• Vascular disease - covers atherosclerosis, degenerative diseases and aortic dissection.
• Vasculitides - covers, PAN, Wegener's, GCA and others.
• Hypertension.
• Pulmonary hypertension.

Detail articles

• Cardiac tumours.
• Cardiomyopathy.
• Congenital heart disease.
• Heart valves.
• Heart transplant pathology.

Cytopathology

• Cytopathology - introduction.

Gynecologic

• Gynecologic cytopathology.

Non-gynecologic

• Breast cytopathology.
• Head and neck cytopathology.
• Mesothelial cytopathology.
• Pulmonary cytopathology.
• Thyroid cytopathology‎.
• Urine cytopathology.

Neurocytopathology

• CNS cytopathology.
  • CSF cytopathology.

Dermatopathology

• Dermatopathology - introduction.

Malignant skin disease

• Dermatologic cancer.

Melanocytic lesions

• Melanocytic lesions.

Benign skin disease

• Non-malignant skin disease.
  • Dermal cysts.
  • Bullous disease.

Forensic pathology & autopsy

• Forensic pathology.
  • Gunshot wounds.
  • Asphyxial deaths - includes hangings, drownings, carbon monoxide poisoning and others.
  • Intracranial hematoma.
  • Sudden natural death.

Autopsy

• Autopsy.
• Fetal autopsy.

Other forensic

• Forensic entomology.
• Forensic anthropology.

Gastrointestinal pathology

• Gastrointestinal pathology - introduction to GI pathology.

Luminal

• Esophagus.
• Stomach.
• Duodenum.
• Small bowel.
• Colon - also covers rectum.
  • Colorectal tumours - deals with colon cancer.
  • Inflammatory bowel disease.
• Appendix.

Specific entities

• Gastrointestinal stromal tumour.
• Gastrointestinal tract polyps.
• Inflammatory bowel disease.

Solid organ/accessory

• Gallbladder.
• Pancreas.
• Liver - introduction.
  • Liver neoplasms.
  • Medical liver disease.
  • Liver transplantation pathology.

Genitourinary pathology

• Genitourinary pathology.
• Adrenal gland.

Urothelium

• Urinary bladder - introduction.
• Urothelium - includes the most common type bladder cancer (urothelial carcinoma).
• Malakoplakia.

Kidney

• Kidney - introduction.
• Kidney tumours.
• Medical kidney diseases.

Male

• Prostate.
• Testis.

Gynecologic pathology

• Gynecologic pathology.
• Ovary.
• Ovarian tumours.
• Endometriosis.

Lower GU tract of female

• Vulva.
• Vagina.
• Cervix.
• Cervical polyp.

Upper GU tract of female

• Endometrium.
• Endometrial hyperplasia.
• Endometrial carcinoma.
• Uterine tumours - deals with non-endometrial uterine tumours, e.g. fibroids.
• Uterine tubes.

Pregnancy related

• Chorionic villi.
• Gestational trophoblastic disease.
• Placenta.
• Products of conception.

Haematopathology

• Haematopathology - an introduction.
  • Lymphoma.
    • Small cell lymphomas - includes CLL, follicular lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma and others.
• Spleen.

Lymph nodes

• Lymph nodes.
  • Lymph node pathology.

Specific entities

• Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Large cell lymphomas:

• Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
• Burkitt's lymphoma.

Small cell lymphomas:

• MALT lymphoma.
• Follicular lymphoma.

Head and neck pathology

• Head and neck pathology.
  • Odontogenic tumours and cysts.
• Salivary glands.
• Thyroid gland.

Molecular pathology

• Molecular pathology - introduction and discussion of PCR-based tests.
• Cytogenetics - ISH and karyotyping.

Detail articles

• Chromosomal translocations.
• Molecular pathology tests.
• Cytogenetic tests.
• DNA sequence comparison.

Neuropathology

• Neuropathology - an introduction to neuropathology.
  • Neuroanatomy - a very brief introduction.
  • Normal neurohistology - covers non-pathologic histology of the brain.

Tumours

• CNS tumours.

Groupings and specific entities

• Peripheral nerve sheath tumours - includes such things as schwannoma.
• Meningioma.

Cytopathology

• CNS cytopathology.
  • CSF cytopathology.

Pituitary gland

• Pituitary gland.

Pathologic groupings

• Intracranial hematoma.
• Neurodegenerative disorders.

Muscle

• Neuromuscular pathology‎.

Paediatric pathology

• Paediatric pathology.
  • Pediatric gastrointestinal pathology.

Placenta

• Placenta.
  • Twin placentas.

Pulmonary pathology

• Pulmonary pathology - an introduction to the topic.

Tumours

• Lung tumours - deals with malignant tumours and touches on non-malignant tumours.

Medical lung disease

• Medical lung diseases - covers the pneumonias among other things.
  • Pulmonary hypertension - covers primary and secondary causes of pulmonary hypertension.
  • Lung transplant pathology - covers transplant-related pathology.

Soft tissue lesions and tumours

• Soft tissue lesions - an introduction.

Detail articles

• Rhabdomyosarcoma.

Groupings

Fibroblastic & myofibroblastic tumours

• Fibroblastic/myofibroblastic tumours - includes stuff like desmoid-type fibromatosis, solitary fibrous tumour and adult fibrosarcoma.

Adipocytic tumours

• Adipocytic tumours - includes lipoma, liposarcoma and others.

Bone and cartilage

• Bone - an introduction to bone.
• Cartilage - an introduction to cartilage.
• Chondro-osseous tumours.

Vascular tumours

• Vascular tumours - includes hemangioma, Kaposi sarcoma, angiosarcoma and others.