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The Pathologist / Issues / 2024 / Sep / Beauty in Failure
Microscopy and imaging

Beauty in Failure

Highlighting the beauty of pathology in a failed aortic graft

By Jessica Allerton 09/20/2024 1 min read

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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

Credit: Nikolina Dioufa

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