Cool Pathology Moments

[2005]

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Today I saw a blood smear with Borrelia hermsii organisms in it. Very cool! The organism causes a type of relapsing fever in the Lake Tahoe area.

 

[yaah]

I saw a cirrhotic liver on trichrome stain (I ordered it because it's pretty) and a positive iron stain on the same liver. I also did a movat stain on a mesenteric vein clot. The colors!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I saw a pheochromocytoma yesterday. **** what did I see today? Hmm...oh yeah, a Meckel's diverticulum. Histology is beatuiful!

 

[deschutes]

I saw a cirrhotic liver on trichrome stain (I ordered it because it's pretty) and a positive iron stain on the same liver. I also did a movat stain on a mesenteric vein clot. The colors!

What does movat stain for? (I could look it up, but this is more memorable 😉 )

 

[b&ierstiefel]

What does movat stain for? (I could look it up, but this is more memorable 😉 )

I encountered this once or twice during M2 year pathology...I think it has to do with staining connective tissue. Yeah I could look this up too but I wanna hear the answer from daddy.

 

[yaah]

The movat stain is also known as the Movat Pentachrome stain (5 colors, duh).

It stains:

Nuclei and elastic fibers: Black.

Collagen and reticular fibers: Yellow.

Ground substance, mucin: Blue.

Fibrinoid, fibrin: Intense red

Muscle: Red

Very pretty - we used it for a vascular thrombosis. Distinguishes between collagen, elastin, and other connective tissues.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I thought movat was the name of a GIJoe action figure...he had the twin that spelled his name backwards. They were both bad people who worked for evil Cobra.

 

[cytoborg]

Saw a GIANT Wilms tumor. Hard to believe that thing even fit inside a 2 year old kid.

 

[cjw0918]

Saw a squamous cell breast CA...kinda neat