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Dr Tatiana Hitchen

@txhitchen.bsky.social

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Anatomical pathology trainee, swapped scalpel for microtome. Philosophy/Law grad. Various interests: my work, human rights, economics, running, guinea pigs.

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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) @wehi-research.bsky.social · 16h

WEHI stands behind the @aamri.bsky.social campaign to strengthen the sector and secure the future of medical research.

Join the call to release the full MRFF and support our scientists to keep saving lives.

Find out more: www.aamri.org.au/mrff

#releasethefullmrff

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · 3d

@glaucomflecken.bsky.social never, ever misses the mark. #PathSky

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The On Call Pathologist

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · 27d

Saw one in Melbourne recently!

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 15

Ok, ok. Here’s the twist - here’s the patient #pathsky #PathSky #dermpath

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 15

Did anyone pick the lack of solar elastosis and suspiciously high number of hair follicles?

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 11

Micro - a bit unexpected? Subcut as anticipated however appears to be an adnexal cyst lined containing numerous hair follicles. Mitotically active!!

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 12

My best diagnosis is trichofolliculoma.

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thoughts??
There’s a twist I won’t reveal yet 👀

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 11

Micro - a bit unexpected? Subcut as anticipated however appears to be an adnexal cyst lined containing numerous hair follicles. Mitotically active!!

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 11

Cut surface showed a cystic lesion filled with grey caseous material. Expected to be epidermal inclusion cyst

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 11

#PathSky #dermpath
Subcutaneous neck lump, present for 3+ years, slow growth.
Macro: 40mm. Appears encapsulated. Unusually well excised!

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 10

#PathSky
When the ovary ova-achieves and makes prostate.

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Sep 2

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️

"Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Unexpected item in the grossing area

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Aug 5

PAS or Grocott not required here 😬
#PathSky

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Aug 2

This - and subsequently reading Dexter Holland's Wikipedia entry - has absolutely made my day.

Darryl Mott 💀 @gamerstavernshow.com · Aug 1

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 1

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Jul 16

#PathSky
Biopsy with gastritis on scope. Epithelial stripping, dense inflammatory infiltrate in the lamina propria, and thick subepithelial collagen band highlighted on trichrome -> collagenous gastritis.
No significant neutrophil population and H. Pylori negative.

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Jul 14

#PathSky

Ulcerated skin lesion. Sheets of immature cells, mitoses +++, eosinophilic myelocytes (eosinophilic granular cytoplasm); MPO and CD43+

Haem team is very good and never fails to give the key history of AML.

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Jul 3

Heading into my cytology era. #PathSky

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Jun 30

T is for tumour #PathSky

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 22

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · Jun 21

The BBC & Telegraph are trailing Wes Streeting’s technophile health plans, including genomic mapping at birth.
Is this really gonna transform the NHS into a prevention service within 10 yrs, as Wes claims? For v rare genetic conditions, praps. But for the real burden of disease?

Thoughts, #medsky?

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Jun 15

This is such a good point and not made often enough!

Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Jun 15

"We're all individuals!"

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · Jun 4

Distracted foreign body looking at the right mainstem bronchus as the left mainstem bronchus looks on offendedly

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · Jun 3

Gratuitously posting this because I think kidney tumours are rewarding. Chromophobe RCC, plant-like cell walls and wrinkled nuclei. Very pretty staining for Hale’s colloidal iron. (Tumour was 133 mm!)
#PathSky

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Dr Tatiana Hitchen @txhitchen.bsky.social · May 31

If you haven't already read Unshrinking, and everything else for that matter, by @katemanne.bsky.social, I highly recommend.