NBME 20 Granulomas containing stellate microabscesses (NBME Answers)

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A 25-year-old woman comes to the physician 2 ...
Granulomas containing stellate microabscesses 🔍 / 📺 / 🌳 / 📖
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Choice A. would have been correct if this patient was immunocompromised. Per First Aid, "If CD4 <100, Bartonella...Findings: Neutrophilic Inflammation.

However, as this patient has a competent immune system, buzz words are stellate necrotizing granulomas.

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yotsubato Everyones choice A is different. +

sugaplum they mean- Diffuse neutrophil infiltration +1

macrohphage95 what does stellate necrotizng granuloma means ? +1

krisgsxr600 always with the details! losing dumb points :( +1

futuredoc12345 @sympathetikey Doesn't the biopsy finding vary with the biopsy location: Lymph nodes have stellate granulomas and Bacillary Angiomatosis (skin lesion) has neutrophilic inflammation. What do you think? +1

chextra @sympathetikey Pathoma chapter 2 says cat scratch disease forms non-caseating granulomas +1

almondbreeze @ chextra Same with FA 2019 pg. 218 +2

almondbreeze Sketchy micro: Immunocompetent: regional LN in axilla in one arm (like our pt here) Immunocompromised: bacillary angiomatsis is transmitted by cat scratches +

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Cat scratch disease (Bartonella infection in immunocompetent hosts) causes lymphadenitis (especially in the axillary region) characterized by sarcoid-like non-caseating granulomas filled with neutrophils.

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B Hensele- Cat Scratch in immuno-compotent - http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/lymphnodescatscratch.html Bartonella henselae in Immuno-compromised- Baciliary angiomatotsis Looks like kaposi sarcoma "Diffuse neutrophilic infiltrate" FA 2019 177

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almondbreeze FA 177 says Kaposi has lymphocytic inflammation whereas Bartonella spp has neutrophilic inflammation. I guess this does not apply when immunocompromised? But doesn't Bartonella usually affect the immunocompromised ppl? +

almondbreeze Got it after seeing that she's immunocompetent +

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