AP Questions Part 1 Flashcards
How many thin prep/automated slides can cytologies read over 24 hours/work day?
200 (because don’t need full manual review / spread over small circle on the slide and doesn’t take up the slide) — for regular cyto slides the limit is 100
What disease results in accumulation of sphingomyelin in lysosomes in the spleen, liver, lungs, bone marrow, and CNS?
Neimann-Pick disease
What mutation is seen in lipoblastoma?
PLAG1
Mutation of hexosaminidase A with accumulation of GM2 ganglioside - what disease? What gene?
Tay-Sachs, HEXA gene (Hebrew hex)
Paget’s disease of the nipple is positive for what two and negative for what two IHCs?
Positive: CK7(cytoplasmic/memb), her2
negative: ER, PR
What 4 breast carcinomas have worse prognosis than IDC?
Basal-like breast carcinoma, invasive micropapillary carcinoma, metaplastic carcinoma, and her2+ carcinomas
What 5 breast carcinomas have better prognosis than IDC?
Secretory, medullary, adenoid cystic, tubular, colloid
BRCA1/2 increases risk of what 4 cancers?
1) breast (including medullary carcinoma)
2) ovary (including serous cystadenocarcinoma and STIC-serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma; submit entire fallopian tube/ovary for microscopic exam if they have this mutation)
3) colon
4) prostate
What 4 disorders is paraganglioma associated with?
VHL, NF1, MEN syndromes, and carneys triad
What tumors are associated with VHL?
- RCC
- pheochromocytoma, paraganglioma
- angioma, hemangioblastoma
- cysts in liver, pancreas, kidneys, epididymis
What do plasmacytoid dendritic cells stain + for?
CD4, CD123
What is the most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults?
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
5 features of psoriasis (go from top down)?
1) parakeratosis
2) munro microabscesses in the parakeratosis
3) absent granular later
4) Acanthosis
5) dermal chronic inflammation and prominent capillaries
Clear cell RCC - what are positive and negative IHC?
1) CD10
2) PAX2
3) vimentin
4) CK7
5) CAIX
6) c-kit
7) AMACR
1) CD10+
2) PAX2+
3) vimentin+
4) ck7- *
5) CAIX+ *
6) c-kit-
7) AMACR- *
- the ones different from papillary RCC
Papillary RCC - what are positive and negative IHC?
1) CD10
2) PAX2
3) vimentin
4) CK7
5) CAIX
6) c-kit
7) AMACR
1) CD10+
2) PAX2+
3) vimentin+
4) CK7+*
5) CAIX-*
6) c-kit-
7) AMACR+*
- the ones different from clear cell RCC
Oncocytoma - what are positive and negative IHC?
1) PAX2
2) vimentin
3) CK7
4) c-kit
1) PAX2+ *
2) vimentin-
3) CK7- *
4) c-kit+
- the ones different in chromophobe RCC
Chromophobe RCC - what are positive and negative IHC?
1) PAX2
2) vimentin
3) CK7
4) c-kit
1) PAX2- *
2) vimentin-
3) CK7+ *
4) c-kit+
*the ones different from oncocytoma
Three IHC stains for SFT / hemangiopericytoma? Which is most specific?
1) CD 34 (will also be + in NF but NF usually also scattered s100+ and doesn’t have thick collagen bands… Schwannoma will be diffuse s100+ but cd34-)
2) STAT6 (most specific)
3) CD99
2 mutations to remember for MPNST?
1) CDKN2A / CDKN2B
(nerve sheath tumors have a pattern like a CanDy KaNe)
2) PRC2
(Peripheral neRve)
IHC for nodular fascitis?
1) CD34
2) SMA
3) s100
1) cd34-
2) sma+
3) s100-
What is the most common odontogenic tumor?
Odontoma
What IHC will stain ameloblastoma?
CK19
Angioimmunoblastic T cell lymphoma vs peripheral T cell lymphoma - how to differentiate by stain?
Angioimmunoimmunoblastic: has EBV+ B cells and neoplastic T cells
Peripheral T cell lymphoma: ONLY T cells (CD2,3+)
AML with t(8;21) and RUNX1-RUNX1T1 mutation - what maturation do you see and what outcome?
Mostly Neutrophilic maturation, favorable outcome (“RUN = fast, like neutrophil acute inflammation and how active you are bc you recovered well”)