Island Med Student

This is for all you path lovers out there. And no, this was not from my fibroadeoma. I never got to see mine, but I bet it wasn’t as cool as this one!

A dog was discovered hiding in a fibroadenoma excised from the right breast of a 30-year-old woman. The dog is small (<0.1 cm), with a hematoxylin-eosin color coat, erect ears, and bushy tail. We are unsure if the dog has been spayed or neutered, but it is definitely fixed (play on the word "fix": fresh tissue of a surgical specimen must be "fixed" (usually overnight) in formalin before proceeding to paraffin embedding of the tissue and preparation of the glass microscope slide).

Thanks to Dr. Catroppo for sending this!

Credit: Weinrach DM and Laskin WB. Lost dog. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2003; 127(11): 1531