The Dead Letter

12/28/2025

Do have different of compared with men? Sometimes they do.

12/23/2025

This is Part 1 of a 2-part review of the case that we just released as a podcast. This link takes you to YouTube but you can listen to an audio-only version wherever you like to listen to podcasts.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Darin Wolfe and forensic autopsy technician Jessie Bones discuss the forensic complexities involving the case of Ellen Greenberg. Af...

12/15/2025

Beware of things that sound too good to be true.

12/15/2025

Looks like a beautiful stain for AFB!

A classic! What stain? What diagnosis?
Answer ✅ https://youtu.be/CBX63-85JHo?si=UEfnM8N1adUkJeOe
Digital slide: https://kikoxp.com/posts/2298.
More stains: https://kikoxp.com/posts/10275.
How often do you see this in your practice? ‪

12/15/2025

Still waiting an update on what the finding was at …most likely is hematoma

12/14/2025

Do I miss working with living patients?

12/13/2025

Snow shoveling and heart attacks! Be careful out there.

12/13/2025

This, my friends, is a microscopic field (400x magnification) of a cancer that I recently diagnosed. This monstrous structure is probably the largest cancer cell I’ve ever seen. You can actually make out several nuclei, and this is probably a synsyctium (a large cell containing many nuclei).
I measured this, using a 7 micron red blood cell as size reference. This structure is 190 microns, which means technically large enough to see with the naked eye. 👁️

12/13/2025

Multidisciplinary Cancer Conferences (“Tumor Board”)

12/05/2025

Just a little to brighten your Friday.

11/22/2025

Please check your Blood Pressure!