Anatomic Pathology Case of the Month
In January 1995, the Department of Pathology began highlighting a new case every month, to be called the Case of the Month. Normally, these are cases of greater than normal clinical interest, cases with unusual symptoms and/or microscopic and gross characteristics, or cases involving rare diseases or conditions. Below is a link to the current Department of Pathology Case of the Month. Also listed below are previous cases which have been highlighted as Case of the Month.
Disclaimer: Review of the Case of the Month is intended for educational purposes ONLY, NOT for research.
Current Case of the Month - February 2023
Previous Cases
- January 2023: A female in her 50s with right ear pain
- December 2022: A female in her early 50s presented with a parotid mass
- November 2022: Extra-mammary Paget Disease of the Penis: A Rare Case Report
- October 2022: A long-standing slowly growing distal thigh mass in an adult female
- September 2022: A Male with a Large Left Groin Mass
- June 2022: A Man in His 60's with a History of Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinoma
- May 2022: A Teenage Girl with a Brain Mass
- April 2022: A Female in Her 50s with Asymptomatic Renal Mass
- March 2022: A Man in His Late 30's with Renal Dysfunction, Proteinuria and a History of HIV with Recent COVID-19 Positivity
- March 2022: A Male in His 50s with Urothelial Carcinoma
- March 2022: A Woman in Her 60's with Episodes of Loss of Consciousness
- February 2022: A Woman in Her 30's with Sinus Infection
- February 2022: A Female in Her 60s with a Kidney Mass
- January 2022: A 50-year-old Female with a Left Thigh Mass
- January 2022: A Man in His 40s with Numerous Bilateral Pulmonary Nodules
- December 2021: A Man in His 30's with Brain Lesions
- November 2021: A Female in Her 70s Presenting with a Breast Mass
- October 2021: A Man in His Sixties with a Blue-black Dome Shaped Nodule over His Left Cheek
- April 2021 (Case 2): A Young Patient with a History of Intermittent Headaches and Fevers
- April 2021 (Case 1): A Woman in Her 50's with a Flank Mass
- March 2021: A Man in His 30s with Hematospermia
- January 2021: A Man in His 50s Who Lost Consciousness
- December 2020: An Elderly Male with a Long-standing Non-healing Ulcer
- November 2020: A Man in His 60s with Proteinuria and Peripheral Edema
- October 2020: A Female Patient in Her 50's with Shortness of Breath
- September 2020: A Young Male with Abdominal Pain and a Para-spinal Mass
- May 2020: A Male in His Early 70s with a Base of Tongue Mass
- April 2020: A 9-year-old Boy with "Unusual Left Testicular Tumor"
- January 2019: A Man in His 20s with Proteinuria and Deafness
- December 2019: A Woman in Her 60's with an Abnormal Brain MRI an Abnormal Brain MRI
- November 2019: A Woman in Her 70s with a Clear Cell Renal Mass
- October 2019: A Woman in Her 50's with a Breast Mass
- September 2019: A 36-week Dichorionic-Diamniotic Twin Placenta
- May 2019: Adult Male with a Lytic Temporal Bone Lesion
- April 2019: Gastric Biopsy from Man in His 40's - Can AI Make the Diagnosis?
- March 2019: A Peculiar Mucinous Tumor of the Breast
- February 2019: Young Male with Soft Tissue Mass of Ankle
- January 2019: An unusual cause of liver failure leading to liver transplantation
- December 2018: A Teenager Female with a Neck Mass
- November 2018: A Middle Aged Female with Left Lower Lobe Lung Mass
- October 2018: Alström Syndrome in an Adolescent Male and a Review of the Literature
- May 2018: A 41 Year Old Male with Rectal Bleeding
- April 2018: Primordial Odontogenic Tumor with Hard Tissue Formation and Epithelial Nests
- March 2018: A Middle Aged Male with an Seminal Vesicle Mass
- February 2018: Middle Age Female with a Femur Lesion
- January 2018: A Term Female Nneonate with Two Oral Cavity Masses
- December 2017: A Teenage Female with an Ovarian Mass
- November 2017: A Post-Menopausal Female with an Ovarian Mass
- October 2017: A Preadolescent Female with a Series of Neurological Symptoms
- September 2017: A Year-Old Boy with a Parotid Lump
- June 2017: A Post-Menopausal Female with an Ovanrian Mass
- May 2017: A Woman in Her 60s with a Parotid Mass
- April 2017: A Post Transplant Teenager with Liver Lesion
- March 2017: Post-menopausal Female with Bleeding and Vaginal Bulge
- February 2017: A 58-year-old Female with a Colonic Mass
- January 2017: Primary Endometrial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors with EWSR Gene Rearrangement
- December 2016: A child with Hirschsprung Disease
- November 2016: A Female in Her 80s with a Renal Mass
- October 2016: A Man in His 50s with Acute Onset Aphasia and Right Sided Weakness
- September 2016: An Adolescent Female with Abdominal Fullness and Distension
- April 2016: A 61-year-old Female with a Mass in the Right Supraclavicular Area
- February 2016: A Woman in her 50s with Severe Pain in Right Lower Quadrant and Vomiting
- December 2015: A man at 70s Had Episodes of Syncopy
- July 2015: A 2-year-old girl with a liver mass
- May 2015: A man in his early 20s with a mass on the lateral aspect of his right lower leg
- April 2015: A female in Her 30s with an Enlarging Left Labial Mass
- March 2015: A woman in her 70s with a bladder mass
- February 2015: A 70 year old male with a mass on the right thigh
- January 2015: A woman in her 70s with a double lung transplant
- December 2014: A 71 year-old male with a right colonic mass
- November 2014: A woman in her 50s with a cervical spinal tumor
- October 2014: A 65-year-old female with an incidental lung mass
- September 2014: A 75 year-old male with obstructive jaundice and a pancreatic head mass
- July 2014: A 4 week-old boy with an abdominal mass
- June 2014: A 24-year old female with gradual onset of abdomen pain
- May 2014: An 83 year old female with a lower GI bleed and multiple lesions
- April 2014: A 6 year old female transplant patient presents with fever and rectal bleeding
- March 2014: A 27-year-old male with deteriorating levels of consciousness
- February 2014: A 46 year old female with a nodule at the mid esophagus
- January 2014: A 58 year old woman with a thyroid nodule
- December 2013: A Neonate with Spontaneous Pneumothorax and Progressive Respiratory Failure
- November 2012: An 11 year old female who collapsed during out-patient clinic visit
- November 2013: Jaundice in a 60 year Old female
- October 2013: A 34 year-old man with abdominal pain and dysuria
- September 2013: A 69-year-old woman with a groin mass
- July 2013: A 7-month-old male with a 4.5 cm deep left inner thigh lesion
- June 2013: A two-year-old male with left undescended testis
- May 2013: A 57 year old postmenopausal woman with spotting and underwent a routine Papanicolaou test
- April 2013: A 57 year-old female with an actively growing right neck mass
- March 2013: A 52-year-old male with a 3 week history of abdominal pain
- February 2013: An 80 year old man with a palpable groin mass
- January 2013: A 66-year-old female with a lung mass
- December 2012: A 65 year-old female with a large solid-cystic adnexal mass
- November 2012: An 11 year old female who collapsed during out-patient clinic visit
- October 2012: A 52-year-old female with flank pain, hematuria, and cirrhosis
- September 2012: A 42 year old woman with a posterior knee mass
- August 2012: A 13-year-old girl with a history of frequent headaches
- July 2012: Abdominal skin lesion and mass in a newborn
- June 2012: A 44 year old female with a splenic mass
- May 2012: A 70 year-old male with multiple bilateral subcentimeter lung nodules
- April 2012: An 81-year-old man with multiple liver masses
- March 2012: A 52 year old female with intermittent left facial paresthesia/hyperesthesia and swelling
- February 2012: An 18 year old male with microscopic hematuria
- January 2012: A 61 year old female with a right-sided submandibular gland mass
- December 2011: A 72 year old man with elevated PSA
- November 2011: A 53-year old male with a five day history of worsening rash, pain and swelling in his right hand
- October 2011: A 17 weeks fetus with significant shortening of long bones
- September 2011: A 70 year old female with eye pain and periorbital swelling (Purged)
- August 2011: A 49 year old male with headache and diplopia
- July 2011: A 55 year-old male with recurrent spontaneous pneumothoraces
- June 2011: A 51-year-old woman with chronic fatigue and weakness
- May 2011: An 86 year-old woman with a sacrococcygeal mass
- April 2011: A newborn with large, thin-walled cysts in the left hemithorax
- March 2011: A 69 year old female with a renal mass
- February 2011: A 10 year old girl with a hepatic Epstein-Barr virus-associated smooth muscle tumor
- January 2011: A 73 year old male had an heart transplant
- December 2010: A 53 year old man presented with a cyst on his left cheek
- November 2010: A 21 year old male with acute renal failure
- October 2010: A 6 year-old girl with a large left neck mass
- September 2010: A 68 year old white male with bladder outlet obstruction
- August 2010: Renal insufficiency in a 68 year-old woman
- July 2010:
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Case 3
- June 2010: A 47 year old Woman with a Thigh Mass
- May 2010: A 67 year old female with a distal pancreatic mass
- April 2010: A 30-year old woman with nephrotic syndrome
- March 2010: Abdominal lymphomatosis
- February 2010: Metastasis to the Calcaneus
- January 2010: Cystic pancreatic mass in a 61 year old male
- December 2009: A 61-year-old female with a history of hirsutism (Purged)
- November 2009: Incidental testicular tumor on a 7 month-old baby boy with congenital nephrotic syndrome
- October 2009: A 79 year-old female with a cauda equina tumor
- September 2009: A 35-year-old male with rectal bleeding
- August 2009: A 23 year old male with portal hypertension in the stomach and an erythematous proximal jejunum
- July 2009: A 94 year-old man with a bladder mass
- June 2009: A 36-year-old female with microalbuminuria
- May 2009: A 76 year-old woman with a left thigh mass
- April 2009: A 62 year-old man with an unexplained 60 lb weight loss
- March 2009: An 87-year-old male with a pathologic hip fracture
- February 2009: A female fetus with bilateral multicystic kidneys
- January 2009: A 42-year-old man with weakness, fatigue and edema of the face and extremities
- December 2008: A 39 year-old female with right forearm lesion
- November 2008: Renal Allograft Biopsy with Diffuse C4d Staining
- October 2008: A thirteen year-old female with a unilateral neck mass
- September 2008: A 68 year old female with acute appendicitis
- August 2008: A 69-year old male with a renal mass
- July 2008: A 53-year-old man with abdominal distention
- June 2008: A 77 year-old man with worsening dyspnea
- May 2008: A 45 year old man with a midline tongue lesion
- April 2008: A 66-year-old male with a history of precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia now presents with an upper lip soft tissue mass
- March 2008: A 35 year-old woman with a vulvar mass
- February 2008: A 39-year old female with a complex renal cyst
- January 2008: A 62 Year-old Male with Flank Pain and Hematuria
- December 2007: A 57-year-old male with a pelvic mass
- November 2007: A 41 year man with sharp pain in the right side of his rib cage
- September 2007: An 18-year old woman with abdominal pain
- August 2007: A 43 year old man with back pain
- July 2007: An 18-year-old female with a brain mass
- June 2007: A 7 year old boy with multiple skin lesions
- May 2007: A 17-year-old female with a subcutaneous left thigh mass
- April 2007: A 71 year old male with right flank pain
- March 2007: A 46-year-old woman with constant left upper quadrant pain (Purged)
- February 2007: A 38-year-old man with a nodular brain mass
- January 2007: 5-month-old twins with turricephaly
- December 2006:
Case 1: A 20-month-old girl with a left calf mass
Case 2: Liver mess in a cirrhotic liver
- November 2006: A 65-year-old woman with malignant lymphoma
- October 2006: A 63-year-old woman with brain mets and diverticulitis
- September 2006: A 4 year old boy with cardiomyopathy
- August 2006: A 60 year-old woman with breast cancer and a left renal mass
- July 2006: A 57 year old woman with a cerebellar mass
- June 2006: A 74-year-old female with a breast mass a breast mass
- May 2006:
Case 1: A 69-year-old man presented with a left neck mass
Case 2: A 68 year-old female with an incidental thyroid cyst
- April 2006: A 68-year old woman with a right parotid mass
- March 2006: An 80-year-old man with a right paratesticular mass
- February 2006: 65 year old man with an enlarged thyroid
- January 2006: A 79-year-old male with a lesion in the head of the pancreas
- December 2005: An elderly man with a plaque-like crusted lesion of his right temple
- November 2005: A 48-year-old woman with a one-year history of back pain
- October 2005: A 60-year-old man with a history of headaches
- September 2005: A 33 year old male with testicular discomfort
- August 2005: A 13-year-old boy with neurodegeneration
- July 2005: A 30 year-old female with multiple gastric polyps
- June 2005: A 74 year old female with inflamed "seborrheic keratosis" on dorsum of right ankle
- May 2005: A 14-year-old boy with congenital hypothyroidism
- April 2005: A man in his 20s with a sudden onset of polydipsia and polyuria
- March 2005: A woman in her 40s with an ovarian mass
- February 2005: A female in her 20s with a thyroid mass
- January 2005: A caucasian woman in her late 20s with progressive shortness of breath
- December 2004: A male in his 60s with plasma cell neoplasm, favor solitary plasmacytoma of bone
- November 2004: A female in her 30s with a right iliac fossa mass
- October 2004: A 71 year-old man with a left testicular mass
- September 2004: An infant with pain over the left scrotum
- August 2004: A transplant patient with multiple cutaneous malignancies and related fatal outcome
- July 2004: A woman in her 60s with an incidental finding in the left ovary
- June 2004: A male in his 20s with HIV, diarrhea and abdominal pain
- May 2004: A baby girl with a bulging eye
- April 2004: A man in his 70s with right upper quadrant and left-sided back pain
- March 2004: A woman in her 60s with hysterectomy (Purged)
- February 2004:
A male his 40s with a pancreatic mass
A young woman with an unusual "cyst"
- January 2004: A woman in her 40s with endometriosis and bland glandular inclusions
- December 2003: A male in his 30s with a mediastinal mass
- November 2003: A male in his 70s with a brain mass
- October 2003: A female in her 70s with pelvic masses
- September 2003: An male in his 80s with left sided neck mass
- August 2003: A teenager male with a brain mass
- July 2003: Adolescents with ovarian masses
- June 2003: A male in his 20s with multiple "atypical" nevi
- May 2003: A man in his 70s with nausea and vomiting
- April 2003: A woman in her 40s with microcalcifications on mammogram (Purged)
- March 2003:
Ovarian mass in a woman at her 50s with endometriosis
A lady in her 20s with a history of upper extremity numbness and weakness
- February 2003: A 56 year old female with a pancreatic mass
- January 2003:
A 38 year-old male with multiple brain masses
A 43 year-old woman with a palpable breast mass
- December 2002:
A 74 year old man with right flank pain
A 64-year-old female with left nipple discharge and an inverted nipple
- November 2002:
A 57-year-old woman with postmenopausal bleeding
A 17 year-old female with left upper neck mass
- October 2002: A 27-year-old female with anaplastic ependymoma
- September 2002: A nasopharyngeal mass in an 87-year-old woman
- August 2002: A 74-year-old man with a right thigh mass
- July 2002: A 58 year old male with hyperglycosuria and normoglycemia
- June 2002: A 51 year-old woman with a nasal mass
- May 2002: A 73 year old female with an enlarged axillary lymph node (Purged)
- April 2002: A 67 year-old man with progressive shortness of breath
- March 2002: A 46 year old man with a right lower lobe pulmonary mass
- February 2002: A 35 year-old man with jaundice and weight loss
- January 2002: A 30-year-old male with a mass in the right ischial rectal fossa
- December 2001: A 58 year old male with fevers, cutaneous nodules and cerebrovascular accident
- November 2001: A 21 year old male with back pain and wobbly gait
- October 2001: A 15 year old male with a left testicular mass
- September 2001: A 53 year old woman with a parotid gland mass
- August 2001: A 44 year-old white male with a left flank mass
- July 2001: A 16 year old male with a right testicular mass
- June 2001: A 15-year-old girl with an ovarian mass
- May 2001: An 82 year-old woman with right-sided hydronephrosis
- April 2001: A 62 year-old woman with back pain
- March 2001: A 66 year-old male with a left thyroid mass
- February 2001: A 71 year old woman with a mass in left breast
- January 2001: A 69-year-old male with a history of colonic adenocarcinoma
- December 2000: A 75-year-old male with abdominal distension, weakness and anemia
- November 2000: A 59-year-old woman with a nodule in the right breast
- October 2000: A 43-year-old obese female with vague left hip discomfort and low back pain
- September 2000: A 71 year old woman with an adrenal mass
- August 2000: A 71 year-old man with acute renal failure
- July 2000: A 24-year old man with flu-like symptoms
- June 2000: A 34 year old male with a large right lung mass
- May 2000: A 72 year-old woman with a large anterior abdominal mass (Purged)
- April 2000: A 37-year-old female with sudden onset of cardiac arrhythmias following a flu-like illness
- March 2000: A 67 year old post transplant patient with cutaneous nodules and ulcers
- February 2000: A 56 year old woman with left facial numbness
- January 2000: A 55 year old woman with solitary fibrous tumor of the pleura
- December 1999: A 48 year old woman with new onset diplopia and mental status changes
- November 1999: A 46 year old woman with a solid mass in the right breast (Purged)
- October 1999: A 39 year old man with lung abscess
- September 1999: A 30 year old female with a painful left index finger
- August 1999: An 84 year old man with bladder outlet obstruction
- July 1999: A 19 month old boy with a renal mass
- June 1999: A 64-year-old woman with a long history of irritable bowel syndrome
- May 1999: A 35 year old female with shortness of breath presenting as atypical pneumonia (Purged)
- April 1999: A 52 year old woman with gastrointestinal bleeding and a history of rheumatoid arthritis
- March 1999: A 39 year old man with lung abscess
- February 1999: A 31-year-old female with a right upper quadrant cyst
- January 1999: Intraventricaular mass in a 4 year old girl
- December 1998: A 72 year old white female with respiratory distress
- November 1998: A 72-year old man with a distal pancreatic mass
- October 1998: A 63 year-old woman with right-sided mass involving kidney and liver
- September 1998: A transplant recipient with fevers and mental status changes
- August 1998: A 38 year old kidney transplant patient with progressive mental status change
- July 1998: A 2 year old girl with right upper quadrant mass
- June 1998: A 24 year old man with end-stage restrictive lung disease and liver disease
- May 1998: A 35 year old woman with a history of arthralgia and myalgia
- April 1998: 54-year old female with a left breast mass
- March 1998: A 32 year old male with recurrent fevers of unknown origin
- February 1998: A 65 year old woman with renal insufficiency
- January 1998: A 36 year old female with early intrauterine loss of twin B
- December 1997: A 24-day-old term infant with seizures
- November 1997: A nineteen year old man with progressive low back pain
- October 1997: A sixty two year old man with a left supraclavicular mass
- September 1997: A 67 year old man with a lytic and blastic lesion of left tibia
- August 1997: A fourty-two year old woman with right breast mass
- July 1997: A sixty-seven year old female with skin lesion
- June 1997: A fourty two year old male with nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
- May 1997: A sixty eight year old female with a large mass in the right kidney
- April 1997: A thirty-three year old woman with post coital bleeding and vaginal discharge
- March 1997: Sixty nine year old male with pigmented
lesion on his right ear
- February 1997: Sixty eight year old male with renal insufficiency
- January 1997: Fifty-nine year old male with lung mass
- December 1996: Fourty-four year old HIV positive man died following bleeding from mouth and nose
- November 1996: Two year old girl with skin lesion on right arm
- October 1996: Fourty-four year old woman with new brain lesion
- September 1996: Retroperitoneal masses in a 45 year old man and a 42 year old woman
- August 1996: Nine 1/2 year old boy with pain in left proximal medial thigh
- July 1996: A thirty eight year old female with phrynoderma following gastric bypass surgery
- June 1996: Sixty year old man with coccygeal mass
- May 1996: Seventy-four year old man with a history of scleroderma and recent rapidly progressive renal insufficiency
- April 1996: Complete heart block in a 9 year old boy status post small bowel and kidney transplants
- March 1996: Sixty-five year old female with Right Neck Mass
- February 1996: Seventy-three year old man with acute renal failure
- January 1996: Twenty month old old male with left paravertebral mass
- December 1995: Fifty-five year old male with neck mass
- November 1995: Fifty-five year old female with hemoptysis
- October 1995: Fifty four year old male with a right cheek mass
- September 1995: Seventy year old male with a gastric mass
- July 1995: Fifty-seven year old female with an anterior mediastinal mass
- June 1995: Seventy-nine year old male with frontal headaches
- May 1995: Sixty-nine year old female with a renal mass
- April 1995: Forty-four year old female with left lower quadrant pain and diarrhea (Purged)
- March 1995: Eighty year old female with a neck mass
- February 1995: Twenty-five year old female with a liver mass (Purged)
- January 1995: Posterior fossa mass in a two month old female