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*Smudged DNA.<ref name=pmid12951999>{{cite journal |author=Pritt BS, Cooper K |title=The Azzopardi phenomenon |journal=Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. |volume=127 |issue=9 |pages=1231 |year=2003 |month=September |pmid=12951999 |doi= |url=http://journals.allenpress.com/jrnlserv/?request=get-abstract&issn=0003-9985&volume=127&page=1231}}</ref>
*Smudged DNA.<ref name=pmid12951999>{{cite journal |author=Pritt BS, Cooper K |title=The Azzopardi phenomenon |journal=Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. |volume=127 |issue=9 |pages=1231 |year=2003 |month=September |pmid=12951999 |doi= |url=http://journals.allenpress.com/jrnlserv/?request=get-abstract&issn=0003-9985&volume=127&page=1231}}</ref>
**Looks like smudged ink -- from a crappy ball-point pen.
**Looks like smudged ink -- from a crappy ball-point pen.
Image: [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metastatic_small_cell_carcinoma_-_high_mag.jpg Azzopardi phenomenon in a metastatic small cell carcinoma (WC)].


==Eponym==
==Eponym==

Revision as of 02:36, 24 July 2011

Azzopardi phenomenon, also Azzopardi effect, is something one occasionally sees as a pathologist -- in small cell carcinoma.

Definition

  • Smudged DNA.[1]
    • Looks like smudged ink -- from a crappy ball-point pen.

Image: Azzopardi phenomenon in a metastatic small cell carcinoma (WC).

Eponym

  • Named after the pathologist (Azzopardi) that showed it isn't calcium.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Pritt BS, Cooper K (September 2003). "The Azzopardi phenomenon". Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 127 (9): 1231. PMID 12951999. http://journals.allenpress.com/jrnlserv/?request=get-abstract&issn=0003-9985&volume=127&page=1231.
  2. AZZOPARDI, JG. (Oct 1959). "Oat-cell carcinoma of the bronchus.". J Pathol Bacteriol 78: 513-9. PMID 13795444.