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**[[AKA]] "napkin-ring" obstructions.<ref>{{Ref PCPBoD8|433}}</ref> | **[[AKA]] "napkin-ring" obstructions.<ref>{{Ref PCPBoD8|433}}</ref> | ||
*Nutmeg liver = congested liver. | *Nutmeg liver = congested liver. | ||
*[[Walnut brain]] = severe (frontal & temporal) cerebral atrophy in [[Pick's disease]]. | |||
==Microscopic== | ==Microscopic== | ||
Revision as of 14:03, 14 March 2012
Pathology and food is strange combination.
Gross pathology
- Strawberry gallbladder = cholesterolosis of gallbladder.
- Chocolate cyst = endometriosis.[1]
- Sugar-coated spleen = hyaloserositis of the spleen.
- Apple core lesions = circumferenial gastrointestinal tumour (usually sigmoid colon).
- Nutmeg liver = congested liver.
- Walnut brain = severe (frontal & temporal) cerebral atrophy in Pick's disease.
Microscopic
- Salt-and-pepper chromatin = stippled chromatin (characteristic of neuroendocrine tumours).
See also
References
- ↑ Giudice LC (June 2010). "Clinical practice. Endometriosis". N. Engl. J. Med. 362 (25): 2389–98. doi:10.1056/NEJMcp1000274. PMID 20573927.
- ↑ Mitchell, Richard; Kumar, Vinay; Fausto, Nelson; Abbas, Abul K.; Aster, Jon (2011). Pocket Companion to Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease (8th ed.). Elsevier Saunders. pp. 433. ISBN 978-1416054542.