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Neuropathologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center 🧠🔬Amateur Equine Enthusiast 🦄 Opinions are my own and are not reflective of my employer nor are they medical advice #medsky #pathsky #eqbsky 🐎 🦋
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1/5 Sharing our @CCR_AACR work establishing serum CA-125 as a biomarker for #RenalMedullaryCarcinoma. This is now the first cancer-associated blood biomarker to become standard of care and used globally for a #kidneycancer : aacrjournals.org/clincancerre... #MsaouelLab

MD Anderson and Texas Children’s Hospital announce a transformational collaboration dedicated solely to pediatric cancer care. This new first-of-its-kind joint venture, which will launch in early 2026, has a single mission: to end childhood cancer. #EndCancer

In honor of upcoming Valentine’s Day here is a classic example of rosette-forming glioneuronal tumor. These grade 1 tumors typically show a hotspot mutation in FGFR1 along with PIK3R1 or PIK3CA alterations and are usually found in the fourth ventricle 🌹 ♥️ 🥀 🧠 🔬 #pathsky #neuropath #medsky

#PathSky 43F with a solitary lung mass. Relatively circumscribed, nests and interesting micropapillae of lightly eosinophilic epithelioid cells. Negative for everything except TFE3. Dx?

Palpably unfair act is definitely entering the lexicon #eagles

Grateful to work with such a fantastic group to learn new things and help our patients the best we can! #pathsky #medsky

Just like Texas rarely sees snow ❄️, every once in a while you will find a primary tumor of the posterior pituitary so keep it in mind during frozen section analysis! Here is a classic example of pituicytoma showing diffuse nuclear positivity for TTF1 #pathsky #neuropath #medsky 🔬 🧠

#PathSky 32M with extra-axial, dural-based, frontoparietal mass. Clearly malignant epithelioid cells arranged in cords and nests in a sclerotic background. Looks a lot like a sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma, and it is strongly MUC4-positive. So, we’re done, right?

Jumping into 2025 with an endolymphatic sac tumor, a VHL-associated neoplasm arising in the posterior petrous bone of the ear #pathsky #eqbsky #neuropath #entpath

Aired our grievances yesterday for Festivus and now enjoying the magic of Christmas Eve 🎄🎁🦄 #eqbsky

Asteroid hyalosis is an aging-associated condition of the eye where calcium and phospholipids build up giving the eye a grossly “glittery star-like” appearance (hence the name). Here is a vitreous cytology specimen before and after polarization showing the material 💫 👁️ #pathsky #medsky

Some tumor look-a-likes on this Friday: Chordoid meningioma and chordoma can share similar features of cords of cells in a myxoid background. Chordoma shows diffuse nuclear Brachyury expression whereas chordoid meningioma is positive for SSTR2 helping to differentiate the two 🧠 #pathsky #neuropath

Alternatively, if you are looking for something else consider mailchi.mp/houserabbits... This is where we adopted our adorable bunny Teepah!

It’s Giving Tuesday! I donated on behalf of team #diagnoseandtreats hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/

Happy Thanksgiving! Always a time to reflect and be grateful for where we are, where we’ve been, and where we are going 😊 🦃

Giving back to the community this holiday season 🦃 Along with the Michael Ann & Saquon Barkley Hope Foundation, acmemarkets, and Youth Mentoring Partnership, Saquon provided Thanksgiving meals to 150 families!

Looking forward to our SNO Future Leaders team project #SNO2024, engaging students to inspire next generations of neuro-oncologists! Social media fosters these connections, so if you're new here like me just follow everyone @neuroonc.bsky.social is tagging / reposting from the conference!

My first time at the annual SNO meeting! Excited to share some cases for discussion during education day #sno2024 #pathsky #medsky 🧠 🔬 🧫 🧪

AMP describing the membership and educational focus of the organization #AMPATH24

#worldprematurityday2024 Our daughter was born at 28 weeks and is now a happy healthy almost 3 year old! @mjcampbell.bsky.social was amazing and handily played both doctor and dad roles! Fun fact: my dad was also born prematurely (both born in December). Wild to see his picture next to hers!

Beautiful pseudoactinomycotic radiate granules (PAMRAGs) to start your Sunday morning. #pathsky #pathology #pathart

According to my husband I only have two interests: surgical pathology and horses 😂 This is my OTTB, When You Wish (name credits to @mjcampbell.bsky.social) “Star” who was given to me 7 years ago by one of my early horse mentors (it’s a long story lol). Anyway I love her to pieces #eqbsky 🐎🦋

It’s almost Friday so here’s a case of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma that now shows anaplastic transformation. The late great Dr Livolsi and I did a study on such brain metastases detailing the histologic and molecular features ❤️🧠🔬 #pathsky pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36889238/

Hoping to connect with old friends, make new ones, and find more pathology content to browse (and learn)!

lol so true 🤓

Myxopapillary ependymoma grossly has a characteristic sausage-shaped appearance. Commonly found associated with the filum terminale, it has a fibrillary glial appearance in a myxoid background. Though previously categorized as CNS WHO grade 1, it is now considered grade 2 #pathsky #medsky #neuropath