Questions and answers on cytopathology:
Q: What is the difference between ethiology and pathogenesis?
Cellular adaptations
Q: What is the difference between degenerative and adaptive changes?
Q: What is the difference between hypoxia and anoxia?
Q: Question for smart Danish medical students–it pertains to hypertrophy and hyperplasia!!
Q: Which placental cell has been derived from the same Greek language root as atrophy, hypertrophy, or dystrophy?
Q: What is the difference between following? Myelin bodies, Mallory bodies, Russel bodies, Hyalin bodies, Lewy bodies
Nekrosis and apoptosis
Q: When does fibrinoid necrosis occur and how does it present itself in the microscope?
Q: Karyorrhexis, pyknosis and karyolysis… WHEN DOES WHAT HAPPEN?! What is associated with apoptosis (I thought pyknosis followed by karyorrhexis, but my teacher said pyknosis by definition was oncosis.), and what is oncosis?
Q: Membrane blepping vs membrane budding: Which occurs when?
Q: Does liquefactive necrosis occur outside the CNS?
Q: Besides necrosis and apoptosis in cell death you mention various other forms – are they significant in human pathology, and could you name where they are encountered?
Q: Is necrosis and, as you call it, oncosis the exact same thing? And if so – why are there two names?
Q: There are some distinct morphological changes associated with necrosis and apoptosis – could you give an outline of these changes in the other forms of cell death mentioned in your lecture?
Q: When a tissue gets necrotic because of ischemia, how can the cells of the immune system function in the anoxic tissue afterwards?
Q: Can the saponification associated with fat necrosis in the pancreas also be characterized as a dystrophic calcification?
Q: IN karyloysis, why is the DNA being broken down by endonucleases?
Q: Types of necrosis – difference between textbooks
Q: Does pyknosis, karyohexis and karyolysis only occur in necrosis or is it also seen in apoptosis?
Q: Manifestation of injury