Pathology Assistant ASCP Exam
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
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Erythema Muliforme - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"target" archer's bull's eye lesion
Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Port wine stain, mucus
membranes with hemorrhage
Angiosarcoma (hemangiosarcoma) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Liver cancer with
malignant vascular tumer from exposure to polyvinyl, arsenic and others
Kaposi Sarcoma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔AIDS, red-purple macules lower
extremities
Pellagra - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B3 deficiency
Megloblastic Anemia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B12 (Neurologic dysfunction)
Folic Acid (no neuro symptoms)
,Vitamin A Deficiency - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Night blindness and squamous
metaplasia
Berbiberi - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B1 deficiency
Dry: Peripheral Neuropathy
Wet: increased output, cardiac failure
Marasmus - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Deficient in all neutrients
Kwashiorkor - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Protein deficient
Right Coronary Artery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Posterior RV free wall and septum
Posterior LV
Left Circumflex (from left coronary: right dominant) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔LV
lateral wall
Left Anterior Descending - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Apex
Anterior LV
Anterior 2/3 Ventricular septum
Arteriolosclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Hyaline thickening in vessels (kidneys,
hypertension, diabetes)
,Atherosclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Plaques (atheroma) in vessels
Arteriosclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔rigidity, thickening of vessels
Monckeberg Arteriosclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Radial and ulnar arteries,
calcific sclerosis of the media of arteries (so blood flow is not obstructed)
Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Streptococcus Viridans,
mitral valve ( also include aortic valve)
IV Drug users= Strep viridans and triscupid valve
Large, soft, friable easily detached vegetations
Complications: ulceration of valves, perforation of cusps, rupture of
chordae tendineae
Nonbacterial Endocarditis (Marantic endocarditis) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Metastatic cancer, wasting conditions
Small, sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged along the line of the valve
leaflets
Peripheral emboliztion
Sterile emboli
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, Libman-Sacks Endocarditis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Lupus
Small vegetations on either or both surfaces of valve leaflets
Endocarditis Carcinoid Syndrome - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Right side cusps
thickened endocardial plaques
Rubella (German Measles) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Risk highest shortly before
conception to 16th wk gestation
Right Sided Heart Failure - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Left sided heart failure
Pulmonary hypertension
Right valvular disease (tricuspid and pulmonary)
Left-sided lesions (mitral stenosis)
Congestive hepatosplenomegaly and renal hypoxia
Nutmeg Liver
Distention of neck veins
Left Sided Heart Failure - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ischemic Heart Disease (MI)
Hypertension
Left valvular disease (aortic and mitral)
2025/2026 Exam Questions and Answers
| 100% Pass
Erythema Muliforme - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔"target" archer's bull's eye lesion
Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Port wine stain, mucus
membranes with hemorrhage
Angiosarcoma (hemangiosarcoma) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Liver cancer with
malignant vascular tumer from exposure to polyvinyl, arsenic and others
Kaposi Sarcoma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔AIDS, red-purple macules lower
extremities
Pellagra - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B3 deficiency
Megloblastic Anemia - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B12 (Neurologic dysfunction)
Folic Acid (no neuro symptoms)
,Vitamin A Deficiency - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Night blindness and squamous
metaplasia
Berbiberi - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔B1 deficiency
Dry: Peripheral Neuropathy
Wet: increased output, cardiac failure
Marasmus - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Deficient in all neutrients
Kwashiorkor - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Protein deficient
Right Coronary Artery - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Posterior RV free wall and septum
Posterior LV
Left Circumflex (from left coronary: right dominant) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔LV
lateral wall
Left Anterior Descending - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Apex
Anterior LV
Anterior 2/3 Ventricular septum
Arteriolosclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Hyaline thickening in vessels (kidneys,
hypertension, diabetes)
,Atherosclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Plaques (atheroma) in vessels
Arteriosclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔rigidity, thickening of vessels
Monckeberg Arteriosclerosis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Radial and ulnar arteries,
calcific sclerosis of the media of arteries (so blood flow is not obstructed)
Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Streptococcus Viridans,
mitral valve ( also include aortic valve)
IV Drug users= Strep viridans and triscupid valve
Large, soft, friable easily detached vegetations
Complications: ulceration of valves, perforation of cusps, rupture of
chordae tendineae
Nonbacterial Endocarditis (Marantic endocarditis) - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Metastatic cancer, wasting conditions
Small, sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged along the line of the valve
leaflets
Peripheral emboliztion
Sterile emboli
3
COPYRIGHT©JOSHCLAY 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Libman-Sacks Endocarditis - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Lupus
Small vegetations on either or both surfaces of valve leaflets
Endocarditis Carcinoid Syndrome - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Right side cusps
thickened endocardial plaques
Rubella (German Measles) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Risk highest shortly before
conception to 16th wk gestation
Right Sided Heart Failure - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Left sided heart failure
Pulmonary hypertension
Right valvular disease (tricuspid and pulmonary)
Left-sided lesions (mitral stenosis)
Congestive hepatosplenomegaly and renal hypoxia
Nutmeg Liver
Distention of neck veins
Left Sided Heart Failure - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Ischemic Heart Disease (MI)
Hypertension
Left valvular disease (aortic and mitral)
