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Surgical Pathologist and Cytopathologist @UIOWA, @UIPATHOLOGY #Breastpath |Tweets my own

Joined October 2013
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Congratulations @AranzaPinedo, one of our PGY-4s! Her abstract "Training Gaps, Perceptions, and Career Interest in Nephropathology among U.S. Anatomic Pathology Residents: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study and Call to Action" won her a Pathologist in Training Best Abstract Award
Honored to receive the Pathologist in Training Best Abstract Award✨for my research in #Renal #Pathology #Education. It was especially meaningful to share this moment with the inspiring Dr. @AstridWeins with whom look forward to working closely at @MGBpathology. Thank you Dr. Bagnasco and the @Renalpathsoc Nominations & Awards Committee for this recognition🔬😊 #USCAP26 #RenalPath #Kidney
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Great week at #USCAP2026 with our faculty, residents, fellows, and externs! Several hosted presentations and moderated conversations, learning from fellow pathologists, and one of our residents took home Pathologist in Training Best Abstract Award.
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They received several questions about if the Department can sponsor H-1B/J-1 visas and the answer is yes!
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Accepting applications for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026. Learn more: medicine.uiowa.edu/pathology…
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Drs. Rob Humble and Matt Gosse represented the Department of Pathology at the 2024 USCAP Fellowship Fair on Sunday, March 24th. They are visited by Chair and Department Executive Officer Dr. Nitin Karandikar.
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Accepting applications for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026. Learn more: gme.medicine.uiowa.edu/surgi…
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"As the state’s only academic medical center, we get to see the full spectrum of pathology across organ systems, which makes for a comprehensive training experience." - Robert Humble, MD, MS
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"Fellows gain autonomy over the course of the year, particularly in the interpretation of intraoperative frozen sections and through independent sign out rotations."
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"Iowa’s surgical pathology fellowship provides access to a large volume of diagnostic material from both in house cases and outside consult cases."
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Congratulations to Dr. Bashir on being named the Director of the Adult Cardiac Division in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
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Very pleased to welcome the incoming resident class to @UIPathology! We can't wait to meet you in person! #IowaPath #PathMatch2022 #PathTwitter @AranzaPinedo
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Sacral mass in a newborn. What is your diagnosis? #IowaPath #PediPath 📸: @tracyshalvorson @laakness1 @JDavickMD
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#PathMatch22 applicants, please consider attending tonight's #VirtualOpenHouse hosted by the @IowaMed Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion & the @uihealthcare GME Office! The registration link can be found here: uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
Not to miss! University of Iowa GME Open House @NMatch2022 #NeuroTwitterNetwork Please follow the link below: uiowa.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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🔹IHC: INI1-, pankeratin+, focal p63, focal synaptophysin/chromogranin 🔹Differential: Olfactory neuroblastoma, non-keratinizing SCC, sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma, NUT-midline carcinoma 🔹Molecular: homozygous deletion of SMARCB1 tumor suppressor gene on chr 22q11.2
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This is a case of SMARCB1 (INI1)-deficient sinonasal carcinoma! 🔹Infiltrative/destructive tumor 🔹Sheets, nests, & cords of basaloid cells w/ large nuclei & prominent nucleoli 🔹Rhabdoid & plasmacytoid cells present 🔹Mitoses & comedonecrosis common 🔹No squamous differentiation
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Here is the IHC. What is your diagnosis? #ENTpath #PathTwitter
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72 year old female with destructive nasopharyngeal mass. What is your differential diagnosis? What IHC would you order? 📸: @NicoleBeckerMD #ENTpath #IowaPath #PathTwitter
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The recording from our Virtual Open House is now available on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=NDK2NnO4… #PathMatch22 applicants, check it out and please contact us with any questions! #Path2Path #VirtualPathMatch #PathTwitter
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- Hailey-Hailey disease (dilapidated brick wall, AD inheritance, ATP2C1 mutations, intertriginous areas - axillae, inframammary) - Darier disease (discrete foci of acantholysis, dyskeratosis + parakeratotic columns, AD inheritance, ATP2A2 mutations, seborrheic areas - face, ears)
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- If clinical presentation is multiple skin lesions, ddx includes entities with overlapping histologic findings: - Grover disease (transient, can look like Hailey-Hailey, Darier, pemphigus vulgaris, or be spongiotic, usually involves trunk of middle-aged man)
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