DIAGNOSTIC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

DIAGNOSTIC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Dr. E.O.  Hoffmann
   LSUHSC                        New Orleans Louisiana, USA              
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WR7, case # 84-5
Clinical information: 59 year old man with a pelvic tumor.
Diagnosis. Pelvic Tumor: Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Diagnostic features: Micro bodies (Short arrows), bile canaliculi (Long arrows).

WR 7, case # 85-1

Clinical information: 64 year old man with a pulmonary mass.
Diagnosis.  Lung, mass resection: Carcinoma with adeno and squamous differentiation, common in pulmonary carcinomas.
Diagnostic features: Desmosomes, tonofilaments, tight junctions, cytoplasmic lumina, short microvilli.

WR 7, case # 85-3

Clinical information: One year old boy with pneumonitis. 
Diagnosis: Pulmonary biopsy: Pneumocystosis (Pneumocystis carinii)
Diagnostic features: Pneuomcystis carinii microorganisms (arrows).

 

 

WR 7, case # 85-5

Clinical information: 7 year old boy with proteinuria, hematuria and decreased renal function.
Diagnosis.  Renal Biopsy: Dense Deposit Disease (MPGN type II).
Diagnostic features: Interrupted dense GBM (short arrows) and subepithelial humps (long arrows).

 

 

WR 7, case # 86-1

Clinical information: 20 year old female with nephrotic syndrome and anemia.
Diagnosis. Renal biopsy: Fabry's Disease.
Diagnostic features: Lamellar inclusions  in epithelial cell cytoplasm (arrows).
 

 

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