Showing posts with label lung. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lung. Show all posts

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Neuroendocrine neoplasms

Neuroendocrine carcinoma 

Carcinoid of small intestine

Trabecular and reticular pattern; not exactly insular


Slight insular pattern seen



Pancreas


Chromogranin



Vague 'cell balls' separated by capillaries

Lung





TTF1 - absent (i.e. not endodermal, unlike lung)

Synaptophysin


Chromogranin

Chromogranin 

Friday, April 6, 2012

Lung cytology

Few findings from guided lung FNACs.

Normal bronchial epithelium

Small cell carcinoma

Note the DNA spread over in thin strands
... pointing to a small cell carcinoma

Squamous carcinoma

An old smoker. No better place for a squamous carcinoma to develop.
or is it?


There's the blue cytoplasm


and a few tadpole cells

Next generation sequencing: Part 1

 Imagine solving a puzzle with 100 pieces, each piece a centimeter in size, something like this: The genome is considerably larger than this...