IPLab

The Interactive Pathology Laboratory (IPLab) offers an interactive, case-based approach for learning the concepts of Pathology. IPLab consists of approximately 100 cases outlining clinical and laboratory findings along with gross photographs and photomicrographs accompanied by descriptive text.

Lab 1: Cell Injury and Death

• Objectives
• Heart: Myocardial Infarction (Coagulative Necrosis)
• Kidney: Infarction (Coagulative Necrosis)
• Lung: Abscess (Liquefactive Necrosis)
• Pancreas: Fat Necrosis (Enzymatic Necrosis)
• Lung: Tuberculosis (Caseous Necrosis)
• Prostate: Apoptosis
• Additional Resources

Lab 2: Cell Adaptations

• Objectives
• Heart: Myocardial Hypertrophy
• Prostate: Nodular Hyperplasia
• Kidney: Squamous Metaplasia
• Testis: Atrophy
• Lung: Metastatic Calcification
• Liver: Fatty Change & Cirrhosis
• Additional Resources

Lab 3: Inflammation and Repair

• Objectives
• Appendix: Acute Appendicitis
• Lung: Lobar Pneumonia
• Lung: Bronchopneumonia
• Lymph Node: Sarcoidosis
• Lung: Tuberculosis
• Lung: Foreign Body Granuloma
• Heart: Fibrinous Pericarditis
• Stomach: Chronic Peptic Ulcer
• Brain: Healed Infarction
• Heart: Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Heart: Healed Myocardial Infarction
• Additional Resources

Lab 4: Hemodynamic Disorders

• Objectives
• Lung: Pulmonary Congestion and Edema
• Liver: Chronic Passive Congestion
• Heart: Mural Thrombus
• Coronary Artery: Thrombosis
• Lung: Thromboembolus
• Lung and Heart: Septic Emboli
• Kidney: Atheromatous Emboli
• Additional Resources