Beauty in Failure
Highlighting the beauty of pathology in a failed aortic graft
Credit: Nikolina Dioufa
Our image of the month comes from Nikolina Dioufa, who identified these “hidden gems” under her microscope. She says, “This image is from a failed aortic graft. In this section, you see abundant refractile and polarizable foreign material from the graft that looks like gems under polarized light.”
Nikolina Dioufa, Assistant Professor and Program Director, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Deputy Editor, The Pathologist
