Fruiting body explained in less than 4 minutes!

This video describes a helpful finding in the pathology of fungal disease, one that helps to make a diagnosis of aspergillosis.

I am a pathologist in Cleveland, Ohio (United States). For 17 years, I have taught medical students, pathology residents and pulmonary fellows. I also review scholarly work in pathology as Associate Editor for the journals American Journal of Clinical Pathology and Modern Pathology. I went to medical school in India (Maulana Azad Medical College, MAMC) and completed pathology residency training at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) followed by a second pathology residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University (Syracuse, New York, USA). After a pulmonary pathology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), I was recruited back to Syracuse and stayed on as faculty for next 6 years, rising to the rank of tenured Associate Professor in 2011. In 2013, I joined the department of pathology at the Cleveland Clinic. My interests include granulomatous lung diseases (including infections), interstitial lung disease, smoking-related lung disease, and lung cancer.

I have authored more than 130 publications in indexed, peer-reviewed journals, including 50 first-authored papers. I am the author of a textbook on non-neoplastic lung pathology published by Cambridge University Press in 2016 and a textbook of thoracic pathology published by Innovative Science Press in 2023.

Since 2016, I have used online platforms to teach lung pathology globally. Please follow me on X (formerly Twitter), where my handle is @smlungpathguy. Many of my educational posts are archived in an organized way on KiKo: https://kikoxp.com/posts/18912

You can find my textbooks here:
https://tinyurl.com/yc2dhcdk (focused on non-neoplastic lung pathology, so-called “medical lung disease”)

https://tinyurl.com/3cy63dtw (survival guide, covers all thoracic pathology topics)