Arab Board Anatomic Pathology Part 1 case studies
Arab Board Anatomic Pathology Part 1 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Arab Board of Health Specializations (ABHS) awards a specialty certification in pathology recognised across much of the Arab world, and Anatomic Pathology Part 1 is the written examination trainees sit early in that programme. It is aimed at residents who have completed a first block of structured histopathology training and are ready to show a working command of the discipline's core knowledge before facing more advanced, subspecialty-heavy assessment. The Arab Board Anatomic Pathology Part 1 case studies are 5 cases and about 4,121 words.
1A 60-cell cell block and eight requested predictive tests
A 62-year-old man with a 30-pack-year smoking history presents with a 3.2 cm right upper lobe mass, bulky subcarinal adenopathy and a single 8 mm brain lesion. EBUS-TBNA of the subcarinal node yields one H&E-stained slide and a 1 mm cell block containing roughly 60 viable tumour cells in a single ribbon.
844 words, about 4 min2ASC-H on a scant, bloody smear with a 'negative' colposcopy
A 34-year-old woman who is HPV-16 positive has an ASC-H result on a liquid-based cervical cytology sample. The slide contains fewer than 20 abnormal squamous cells, no endocervical cells and abundant blood.
817 words, about 4 min3Warm autoantibody, two units needed, and a resident who wants to skip the workup
A 58-year-old woman with a bleeding duodenal ulcer has a haemoglobin of 5.9 g/dL and is haemodynamically borderline. The antibody screen is positive with a panagglutinin.
789 words, about 4 min4Sudden collapse on day 8 postpartum: the autopsy before the ancillary results
A 29-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 2, collapses at home on day 8 after an uncomplicated vaginal delivery and is pronounced dead in the emergency department. Her body mass index is 36.
798 words, about 4 min5Validating HPV primary screening in a 22,000-smear laboratory
The director of a laboratory serving a 400-bed hospital and its screening programme is considering replacing cervical cytology with HPV primary screening on a new platform. The laboratory currently processes 22,000 cervical samples per year.
873 words, about 4 min