André's slide box

Intercalated duct lesions are a forgotten member of the salivary gland tumour family.

This post was originally published as a Pitt Anatomic Pathology Case of the Month: see the original here Clinical History A man in the fourth decade of life with unremarkable past medical and family history presents to medical attention for abdominal pain…

Microfollicles, as seen in a fine-needle aspiration specimen of a thyroid nodule.

Disclosure: First and foremost, the entirety of this project is built around a tool developed by others at EMPAIA: wsi-anon.

Every so often, I stumble upon some variation of the graph displaying American music industry revenues by format: vinyl is replaced by cassettes, which are replaced by CDs, which are (briefly) replaced by digital downloads and ringtones, which are finally…

Most thyroid fine-needle aspirates fit neatly into one of the 6 categories of the Bethesda classification.

Although Thoracic SMARCA4-deficient undifferentiated tumour (SD-UT) is a recognized entity in the 5th edition of the WHO classification of thoracic tumors, this alteration occurs in garden-variety lung cancer as well (and in many other tumors too!)

Graphical abstract of the article [source] I collaborated on this study by Dilhan Perera and colleagues, under the direction of Momar Ndao.

The list of tumours with fusions involving the FET (EWSR1, FUS) and CREB (CREB1, ATF1, or CREM) families of genes is ever-expanding.

OncoPrint for NGS Lung Cancer MUHC Cohort I collaborated on this study that Mark Sorin and colleagues published in Cancer Treatment and Research Communications, detailing the molecular profile of a large (n=997) cohort of patients at the McGill University…

Sir William Osler I gave a presentation on Sir William Osler’s presence at McGill in the 21st century at a symposium organized by McGill’s department of Social Studies of Medicine on February 3, 2021.

Calcified old ventricular aneurysm.

Adrenal amyloidosis - low magnification These photomicrographs belong to the adrenal taken at autopsy of an older adult who died in hospital of renal failure and resistant shock.

The opening aphorism in Ugo Benzi’s commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms (manuscript held by Osler Library of the History of Medicine In 2017, I wrote an essay about a manuscript comment on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates by the 15th-century physcian Ugo Ben…