Hematopathologist, Boston Children’s Hospital | Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School | Posted cases are historic | Opinions are my own
Our study on "ANKRD26-related thrombocytopenia 2 with a baseline increase in blasts: implications for clinical surveillance" is now published in Blood (and on the cover!)
Free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lPab…#hemepath#pathx
Check out our paper on pediatric B lymphoblastic leukemia with low peripheral blasts. Free link below. These cases are diagnostically challenging and have features that overlap with non-neoplastic/inflammatory disorders. #hemepath#leusm#pathxjcp.bmj.com/cgi/rapidpdf/jcp…
Free link to our article on SWI/SNF-deficient T-cell lymphoma
authors.elsevier.com/a/1nFRJ…
'SWI/SNF-deficient T-cell lymphoma' may represent a biologically unique type of lymphoma that can be separated from the PTCL, NOS "waste basket" classification.
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I'm working on a teaching presentation on Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Picture below contains HRS-like cells from 9 different cases.
Which ones are classical Hodgkin's lymphoma and which ones are something else?
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27 yo male with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (biopsy proved), systemic Mycobacterium Simiae (MAC) infection (BAL, blood and BM culture positive), monocytopenia and low B cells. This is his BMB with CD61. What is the syndrome?
I disagree with your solution but agree with the problem. We need to find some way to fix this without sacrificing physician education. 3 years of training is not enough. There are other, established pathways with more rapid training for other APPs
Who gets to be a doctor in America is about to change.
Trump’s new federal student loan caps will push lower-income students out of medicine and make the physician shortage worse. It's time to shorten medical school to three years.
nytimes.com/2025/11/10/opini…
This is the bone marrow in Niemann-Pick disease. Distended foamy appears f macrophages. Other types of storage disorders can look similar. But Gaucher’s has a different and distinct look.