The new crop: Jul - Aug 2011

Cerebral venous thrombosis

Base of skull in a case of cerebral venous thrombosis (what hath God wraught?)

Histoplasma

Some capsulated organisms in macrophages (Bone marrow of HIV +ve patient) ? Histoplasma

Castleman disease

The 'lollipop' in the lymph node

Leprosy

BT leprosy - note the nerve infiltration and well defined granulomas with giant cells



Another diffuse nerve infiltration

Neurocysticercosis

From an autopsy

Acinic cell carcinoma of parotid

Myelolipoma of adrenal gland - note the megakaryocyte

Looking into an eye with my own

Sections from an eye of a child with retinoblastoma; this is the iridocorneal angle

The iridocorneal angle

Lens

Cancer arising from retina

F-W rosettes of retinlblastoma

Another eye; note the ten layers of retina and the cilary body

Immedeiately facing the pigment layer (choroid) are the rods and cones

The layers, full thickness

This is where aqueous humor is secreted from; the pigmented epithelium is that of iris

Another retinoblastoma with optic nerve invasion