PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT ASCP EXAM 2025/26 SCORED A+
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
,PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT ASCP EXAM 2025/26 SCORED A+
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
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
, PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT ASCP EXAM 2025/26 SCORED A+
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)
Myocardial diseases
Dyspnea and orthopnea
Pleural effusion with hydrothorax
Reduction in renal perfusion
Cerebral anoxia
Pulmonary edema
Subependymal Hemorrhage - (ANSWER)Lateral ventricles of brain, premature infants
Necrotizing Enterocolitis - (ANSWER)Severe and sudden onset of inflammation of small and large
intestines
Trisomy 13 - (ANSWER)Patau Syndrome
Polydactyly
"Rocker Bottom" feet
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
,PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT ASCP EXAM 2025/26 SCORED A+
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
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
, PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT ASCP EXAM 2025/26 SCORED A+
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)
Myocardial diseases
Dyspnea and orthopnea
Pleural effusion with hydrothorax
Reduction in renal perfusion
Cerebral anoxia
Pulmonary edema
Subependymal Hemorrhage - (ANSWER)Lateral ventricles of brain, premature infants
Necrotizing Enterocolitis - (ANSWER)Severe and sudden onset of inflammation of small and large
intestines
Trisomy 13 - (ANSWER)Patau Syndrome
Polydactyly
"Rocker Bottom" feet
