Been going over lung pathology using Foundations series book and Sanjay mukhopadhyay's Youtube channel. I want to correlate with cytology, but not sure about resource to use besides DeMay. What would be really good would be an atlas with cytopath correlates.
Lung is a deceptively "simple" organ. It looks simple on H&E, but now I know there is way more than meets the eye... Autopsies, I feel, really help in understanding the lung in disease given it is pretty rare to get a full lobectomy specimen on a living patient. In that sense, it is somewhat (but not completely) like the brain. i.e. full brain, you know, person = 100% dead; Whereas, lung-wise person ≈ dead, remember you need two. But yeah... It is nice seeing coronal gross slices of lung, in an Autopsy Atlas, for example. Even better to see multiple slides (but not so nice for the patient). It is kind of unfortunate that there aren't more lung pathologists, but I understand it because of the volume.
I'm interested in how the discovery of PD-L1 will change the field of lung cancer / pathology. The lab at my home institution is trying to bring PD-L1 IHC (immunohistochemistry) in. Perhaps if there was a method that was faster (molecular anyone?) it might be worth a pretty penny. Essentially, since the technology is so new, I feel like there are many directions to take this... investigation into better IHC markers as surrogate or improved over PD-L1 perhaps, or perhaps even a new technique, or a way to standardize it, would be helpful... though I'm guessing pharma R&D are all over this right now. Just a hunch.
What are some new developments you all have noticed recently?
Side note: Was recommended this book (Diagnostic Pathology: Kidney Diseases, 2nd Edition) by Robert Colvin at MGH. Along with Silva's renal path and Heptinstall's. All seem like great books for learning renal path. It's hard to find these books, but I suggest interlibrary loan if available where you are... another resource is WorldCat, which is a worldwide catalogue for books in libraries around the world.
Side note: Was recommended this book (Diagnostic Pathology: Kidney Diseases, 2nd Edition) by Robert Colvin at MGH. Along with Silva's renal path and Heptinstall's. All seem like great books for learning renal path. It's hard to find these books, but I suggest interlibrary loan if available where you are... another resource is WorldCat, which is a worldwide catalogue for books in libraries around the world.
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