MUSC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

09/17/2025

The resident gang(lia) took a trip down to the autopsy suite for hands on brain cutting. Not gonna (nuc)lei, brain anatomy review is always helpful 🧠 especially during our CNS month!

09/09/2025

Join us for a virtual open house next Monday, September 15th at 6:30pm (EST) to learn more about our pathology residency program from our program director and current residents!

https://musccom.zoom.us/j/97059212512?pwd=hAinfbN5vAO8cLTDZufG8dfve2bqqb.1

09/01/2025

August! 🍉 We made it through a rainy month with painting and drawing cards for wellness, salsa dancing, an end of training month pool party, exploring the golf courses of Kiawah, Riverdogs baseball, acroyoga, quality time with pets, coffee shop studying, and exploring all around Charleston!

08/28/2025

Welcome back to our case of the month series! To kick us off for the academic year we have a case of a 55 year-old-woman with a mass of the right breast. The patient proceeded with a mastectomy and the slides are shown above. First, what is your differential diagnosis? And, if you are suspicious for malignancy what features push you to that conclusion? 

If you're thinking something stromal, good for you! With a predominantly stromal lesion like this our differential should include fibroadenoma, phyllodes tumor, and other lesions like fibromatosis or even a CrAzY metaplastic carcinoma! We distinguish this phyllodes tumor by noting its "leaf-like" architecture with characteristic subepithelial stromal condensation. Determining benign, borderline, and malignant phyllodes tumors is based on the amount of stromal cellularity, atypia, stromal overgrowth, mitoses, and heterologous elements. We see those features in the images above with significant mitotic activity, overgrowth of stroma, and increased cellularity with a background architecture indicative of a phyllodes tumor leading us to the correct diagnosis. Thanks for reading and see you next month! 🍃

08/14/2025

Here's a look back at some of our resident presentations over the past year! 🐊 As part of our academic curriculum, residents present one grand rounds and one journal club each year along with short and sweet talks on something interesting or high yield on their CP rotations!

08/04/2025

Time to celebrate the end of training month with some fun at the pool! Burgers and dogs for everybody! 🍔🌭🏖️🏖️☀️

07/14/2025

2nd Sunday on King Street! 🌴🍋🎺

07/07/2025

Pap smears have gone digital & AI here at MUSC! 🔬🤖

07/01/2025

New year, new faces ☀️🌊🔬 Welcome to our new residents and fellows and congrats on another year down to our upper levels!

06/29/2025

We had such a wonderful time meeting the new residents and fellows at our Welcome Party! We can't wait for the new year to officially begin! 🔬

06/06/2025

As our fourth years begin their transition to fellowship we wanted to give a huge thanks to our former chiefs Tom and Dorbin! We celebrated our former chiefs with some gifts to remember us by. An extra special congratulations to Dorbin for winning this year's unknowns award! Good luck during fellowship and thank you for everything this last year!

05/12/2025