Clinico-Pathologic Conference: Case 6

Hellenic holocaust: a historical clinico-pathologic conference.

The traditional clinico-pathologic conference (CPC) begins with a case presentation. Next, a clinician analyzes the clinical information, illustrating the diagnostic process and proposing one “best-fit” diagnosis for the anonymous (and often dead) patient. Finally, a pathologist presents the actual autopsy or histologic findings, either validating or rejecting the clinician’s diagnosis. This “h...

Clinico-Pathologic Conference: Chronic Nephritis in a Bull

Chronic thinner intoxication: clinico-pathologic report of a human case.

A 27 year old Mexican male addicted for 12 years to glue-sniffing and thinner inhalation developed neurological and behavioural disturbances which led to hospital admission and death. Autopsy disclosed diffuse cerebral and cerebellar cortex atrophy and giant axonopathy both central and peripheral. The corpus callosum was atrophic secondarily to neuron loss in the neocortex.

Clinico-pathological conference 2002.

INTRODUCTION Six cases are reported, each presented at the 11th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Oral Pathologists as an instructive case for differential diagnosis on the basis of clinical, imaging or histological features. CLINICAL PICTURE Case diagnoses included a large, possibly intraosseous, myofibroma presenting with an oral mass; Langerhans cell histiocytosis with ...

Clinico-Pathologic Conference: Pulmonic Stenosis and Patent Foramen Ovale in a Dog