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This is the microscopic appearance of an acute renal infarct.

At the far right is normal kidney,


then to the left of that hyperemic kidney that is dying, then to the left of that pale pink infarcted
kidney in which both tubules and glomeruli are dead.
This is an ascending bacterial infection leading to acute pyelonephritis. Numerous PMN's are
seen filling renal tubules across the center and right of this picture.
The tubular vacuolization and dilation here is a result of ethylene glycol poisoning. This is
representative of acute tubular necrosis (ATN), which has many causes. ATN resulting from
toxins usually has diffuse tubular involvement, whereas ATN resulting from ischemia (as in
profound hypotension from cardiac failure) has patchy tubular involvement.
Here is a vasculitis of a renal arterial branch. Lymphocytes are scattered in and around the
vessel. This happens to be polyarteritis nodosa, a systemic vasculitis that most often affects the
kidneys. The P-ANCA serology is usually positive
The microscopic appearance of the "end stage kidney" is similar regardless of cause, which is
why a biopsy in a patient with chronic renal failure yields little useful information. The cortex is
fibrotic, the glomeruli are sclerotic, there are scattered chronic inflammatory cell infiltrates, and
the arteries are thickened. Tubules are often dilated and filled with pink casts and give an
appearance of "thyroidization."
Malignant hypertension:

A: Fibrinoid necrosis of afferent arteriole

B: Hyperplastic arteriolitis (onio-skin lesion)

Courtesy of : Dr. H. Rennke, Dept Pathology, Brigham and Woman’s Hospital


Chronic glomerulonephritis. Masson trichrome staining
(blue staining collagen) Indicating sclerosis
Tubules of epididymis within the center of an abscess in a case of
acute epididymo-orchitis.
High-grade papillary urothelial carcinomas display marked cytologic and architectural
atypia. Within the papillary fronds, the neoplastic cells are arranged haphazardly with the
loss of polarity. There is considerable variability in nuclear size and shape. The nuclei are
hyperchromatic and prominent nucleoli are present. Mitotic activity is increased and
mitoses may be found at all levels of urothelium. Some cases show numerous apoptotic
cells.
Radical cystectomy specimen
showing extensive papillary
tumors throughout the
bladder.
Genital Molluscum Contagiosum. This HIV-infected individual developed
multiple, persistent molluscum lesions in the genital region. One of the
lesions has the characteristic dome-shaped contour with central
umbilication.
Prominent Henderson-Patterson (molluscum) bodies (intracytoplasmic
eosinophilic inclusions containing virus particles) in keratinocytes of
stratum spinosum and granulosum
Schiller-Duval body is a distinctive perivascular structure seen in the
endodermal sinus pattern of yolk sac tumor. It consists of a central vessel
surrounded by tumor cells – the whole structure being contained in a cystic
space often lined by flattened tumor cells. It represents an attempt to form
yolk sacs.
At higher magnification, the enlarged prostate has glandular hyperplasia.
The glands are well-differentiated and still have some intervening stroma.
The small laminated pink concretions within the glandular lumens are
known as corpora amylacea.

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