In January 1995, the Department of Pathology began highlighting a new case every month, to be called the Case of the Month. Normally, these are cases of greater than normal clinical interest, cases with unusual symptoms and/or microscopic and gross characteristics, or cases involving rare diseases or conditions. Below is a link to the current Department of Pathology Case of the Month. Also listed below are previous cases which have been highlighted as Case of the Month.
Disclaimer: Review of the Case of the Month is intended for educational purposes ONLY, NOT for research.
Current Cases of the Month
- October 2026: Enlarging Renal Mass
- October 2026: A 16-year-old boy with a concerning papule on the left cheek
Previous Cases
- September 2026: A Woman in Her Fourth Decade of Life with Longstanding Menorrhagia
- July 2026: Rapidly Growing Forearm Mass
- April 2026: A Man in His Fourth Decade with a Thyroid Nodule
- March 2026: Young Woman with a Liver Lesion
- March 2026: Soft Plaques, Hard Diagnosis
- February 2026: A Man in His 60s with a New Atypical Neck Papule
- February 2026: A 72-year-old Male with Enlarged and PET-avid Perirectal Lymph Nodes
- January 2026: A Man in His 60s with Hematuria and Worsening Flank Pain
- January 2026: Teenage Boy with Overlapping Skin Lesions of the Scalp
- December 2025: A Female in Her 20s Following Up on Pap Test Results
- December 2025: Diagnosis of an Aggressive Thoracic Neoplasm in a Young Adult Female on Fine Needle Aspiration
- November 2025: Case of Cervical Tumor in a Patient in Her 70s
- November 2025: A Breast Carcinoma with Mixed Messages
- October 2025: Uterine Adenomatoid Tumors
- October 2025: A Woman in her 50s with a Breast Mass
- September 2025: A Woman in Her 70s With a Pancreatic Mass
- May 2025: A Man in His 60s with Upper Lip Lesion
- April 2025: A Female in Her 6th Decade with Spinal Cord Mass
- March 2025: A Woman in Her 60s with Sinusitis and Proptosis
- March 2025: A Pregnant Female in Her 20s with Abdominal Pain
- February 2025: A Man in His 60s with a Testicular Mass
- February 2025: An Adult Male with an Inguinal Mass, Lower Extremity Swelling, and Testicular Pain
- January 2025: Woman with Paraspinal Soft Tissue Mass
- December 2024: Young Female with Insidious Onset of Severe Back Pain
- December 2024: A Woman in her 60s with a Hypoechoic Breast Lesion on Imaging
- November 2024: A Male Child with Altered Mental Status and Seizures
- November 2024: Toddler with Changing Skin Lesion
- September 2024: A long-standing slowly growing right forearm mass in an adult male
- May 2024: A Man in His 60s with a Decades-Long History of Smoking Tobacco Products
- April 2024: A Female in Her 60s with a Renal Mass
- March 2024: A Male Patient in Mid-Forties with Left Arm Lesion
- February 2024: A Man in His 40s with a Pituitary Mass
- January 2024: Female in Her 60s with Enlarging Anterior Thigh Mass
- November 2023: A Man in His 20s with a Testicular Mass
- October 2023: A Man in His 30s with a Right Frontal Cystic Mass
- October 2023: A Male Patient in His 60s with Flank Pain and Early Satiety
- May 2023: A Teenage Girl with a Left Temporal Mass
- April 2023: A Rare Tumor with a Novel Fusion
- March 2023: Female in Her 50s with New Breast Calcifications on Imaging
- March 2023: Man in his 50s with Periodic Sweating and Diarrhea
- February 2023: A Male in His 70s with a Large Kidney Mass
- January 2023: Large Right-Hand Soft Tissue Mass in a 3-Month-Old Girl
- November 2022: Extra-mammary Paget Disease of the Penis: A Rare Case Report
- December 2022: A Female in Her Early 50s with a Parotid Mass
- October 2022: A Long-Standing Slowly Growing Distal Thigh Mass in an Adult Female
- September 2022: A Male in his 70s with a Large Left Groin Mass
- June 2022: A Man in His 60s with a History of Metastatic Lung Adenocarcinoma
- May 2022: A Teenage Girl with a Brain Mass
- April 2022: A Female in Her 50s with Asymptomatic Renal Mass
- March 2022: A Man in His Late 30s with Renal Dysfunction, Proteinuria, and a History of HIV with Recent COVID-19 Positivity
- March 2022: A Male in His 50s with Urothelial Carcinoma
- March 2022: A Woman in Her 60s with Episodes of Loss of Consciousness
- February 2022: A Woman in Her 30's with Sinus Infection
- February 2022: A Female in Her 60s with a Kidney Mass
- January 2022: A 50-year-old Female with a Left Thigh Mass
- January 2022: A Man in His 40s with Numerous Bilateral Pulmonary Nodules
- December 2021: A Man in His 30's with Brain Lesions
- November 2021: A Female in Her 70s Presenting with a Breast Mass
- October 2021: A Man in His Sixties with a Blue-black Dome Shaped Nodule over His Left Cheek
- April 2021 (Case 2): A Young Patient with a History of Intermittent Headaches and Fevers
- April 2021 (Case 1): A Woman in Her 50's with a Flank Mass
- March 2021: A Man in His 30s with Hematospermia
- January 2021: A Man in His 50s Who Lost Consciousness
- December 2020: An Elderly Male with a Long-standing Non-healing Ulcer
- November 2020: A Man in His 60s with Proteinuria and Peripheral Edema
- October 2020: A Female Patient in Her 50's with Shortness of Breath
- September 2020: A Young Male with Abdominal Pain and a Para-spinal Mass
- May 2020: A Male in His Early 70s with a Base of Tongue Mass
- April 2020: A 9-year-old Boy with "Unusual Left Testicular Tumor"
- January 2020: A Man in His 20s with Proteinuria and Deafness
- December 2019: A Woman in Her 60's with an Abnormal Brain MRI an Abnormal Brain MRI
- November 2019: A Woman in Her 70s with a Clear Cell Renal Mass
- October 2019: A Woman in Her 50's with a Breast Mass
- September 2019: A 36-week Dichorionic-Diamniotic Twin Placenta
- May 2019: Adult Male with a Lytic Temporal Bone Lesion
- April 2019: Gastric Biopsy from Man in His 40's - Can AI Make the Diagnosis?
- March 2019: A Peculiar Mucinous Tumor of the Breast
- February 2019: Young Male with Soft Tissue Mass of Ankle
- January 2019: An unusual cause of liver failure leading to liver transplantation
- December 2018: A Teenager Female with a Neck Mass
- November 2018: A Middle Aged Female with Left Lower Lobe Lung Mass
- October 2018: Alström Syndrome in an Adolescent Male and a Review of the Literature