MUSC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

11/03/2025

October! 🎃 What a month! We had our resident retreat at the beach, attended NAME in Kentucky, played games for wellness, enjoyed the fall Charleston weather, and embraced the Halloween spirit by painting and carving pumpkins, dressing up as attendings on Halloween, and having a resident Halloween party!

11/02/2025

Happy Halloween from MUSC Pathology! 🎃

10/31/2025

10/30/2025

Congrats to our residents that attended NAME and gave a platform presentation and poster presentation (Dr. Hannah McQueen, PGY2) and a poster presentation (Dr. Brittany Wilson, PGY4)! 💀

10/27/2025

No it's not stained glass, this is our October case of the month! 🎃This is a case of a 65-year-old man who presents with worsening burning pain in his bilateral legs for the past few weeks. Workup included an elevated creatine kinase of 2,800 U/L with negative myositis and HMG coA reductase antibody panels. MRIs of bilateral thighs showed bilateral mild symmetric thigh muscle atrophy which is greatest distally with relative sparing of the re**us femoris. A muscle biopsy was performed and included the above finding on a Gomori's trichrome stain. What is your differential diagnosis and what is the name of the finding depicted in the image? 
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These are ragged red fibers! They are an accumulation of abnormal mitochondria and are seen as red myofibrils in subsarcolemmal zones. They can be indicative of a mitochondrial myopathy, such as Myoclonic Epilepsy with Ragged Red Fibers (MERRF) and Kearns-Sayre syndrome, though they are not specific or exclusive for these disorders with the final diagnosis requiring clinico-pathologic correlation (our favorite statement in pathology). A big shout-out to our neuropathology team for sharing this interesting case, thanks Dr. Baker and Dr. Welsh! 

10/25/2025

Resident Retreat! We tie-dyed, ate pastries and BBQ, sunbathed, frolicked in the ocean, and enjoyed a morning together away from the hospital! 🌴🌊🎨

10/15/2025

And for our encore, a day in the life while on surgical pathology!

10/10/2025

October Wellness! 🎮🃏

10/09/2025

Join us for a glimpse into the daily life of an MUSC pathology resident on a few of our rotations!

09/30/2025

September! 🍂 Our month was filled with neuropath didactics and brain cuttings, Charleston Battery soccer games, CAP25 in Orlando, beach days with the dogs, wellness coffee mornings, salsa dancing, volunteering with birds of prey, celebrating our CP Attending of the year Dr. Squires, and don't forget about the long weekend getaways and other vacation adventures!

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!