PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT ASCP EXAM
LATEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Erythema Muliforme
- correct answer "target" archer's bull's eye lesion
Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome
- correct answer Port wine stain, mucus membranes with hemorrhage
Angiosarcoma (hemangiosarcoma)
- correct answer Liver cancer with malignant vascular tumor from exposure to polyvinyl, arsenic and
others
Kaposi Sarcoma
- correct answer AIDS, red-purple macules lower extremities
Pellagra
- correct answer B3 deficiency
Megaloblastic Anemia
- correct answer B12 (Neurologic dysfunction)
Folic Acid (no neuro symptoms)
Vitamin A Deficiency
- correct answer Night blindness and squamous metaplasia
Beriberi
- correct answer B1 deficiency
,Dry: Peripheral Neuropathy
Wet: increased output, cardiac failure
Marasmus
- correct answer Deficient in all nutrients
Kwashiorkor
- correct answer Protein deficient
Right Coronary Artery
- correct answer Posterior RV free wall and septum
Posterior LV
Left Circumflex (from left coronary: right dominant)
- correct answer LV lateral wall
Left Anterior Descending
- correct answer Apex
Anterior LV
Anterior 2/3 Ventricular septum
Arteriolosclerosis
- correct answer Hyaline thickening in vessels (kidneys, hypertension, diabetes)
Atherosclerosis
- correct answer Plaques (atheroma) in vessels
Arteriosclerosis
- correct answer rigidity, thickening of vessels
, Monckeberg Arteriosclerosis
- correct answer Radial and ulnar arteries, calcific sclerosis of the media of arteries (so blood flow is not
obstructed)
Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis
- correct answer Streptococcus Viridans, mitral valve ( also include aortic valve)
IV Drug users= Strep viridans and tricuspid valve
Large, soft, friable easily detached vegetations
Complications: ulceration of valves, perforation of cusps, rupture of chordae tendineae
Nonbacterial Endocarditis (Marantic endocarditis)
- correct answer Metastatic cancer, wasting conditions
Small, sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged along the line of the valve leaflets
Peripheral embolization
Sterile emboli
Libman-Sacks Endocarditis
- correct answer Lupus
Small vegetations on either or both surfaces of valve leaflets
Endocarditis Carcinoid Syndrome
- correct answer Right side cusps thickened endocardial plaques
Rubella (German Measles)
- correct answer Risk highest shortly before conception to 16th wk gestation
Right Sided Heart Failure
- correct answer Left sided heart failure
Pulmonary hypertension
Right valvular disease (tricuspid and pulmonary)
Left-sided lesions (mitral stenosis)
Congestive hepatosplenomegaly and renal hypoxia
LATEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Erythema Muliforme
- correct answer "target" archer's bull's eye lesion
Osler-Weber-Rendu Syndrome
- correct answer Port wine stain, mucus membranes with hemorrhage
Angiosarcoma (hemangiosarcoma)
- correct answer Liver cancer with malignant vascular tumor from exposure to polyvinyl, arsenic and
others
Kaposi Sarcoma
- correct answer AIDS, red-purple macules lower extremities
Pellagra
- correct answer B3 deficiency
Megaloblastic Anemia
- correct answer B12 (Neurologic dysfunction)
Folic Acid (no neuro symptoms)
Vitamin A Deficiency
- correct answer Night blindness and squamous metaplasia
Beriberi
- correct answer B1 deficiency
,Dry: Peripheral Neuropathy
Wet: increased output, cardiac failure
Marasmus
- correct answer Deficient in all nutrients
Kwashiorkor
- correct answer Protein deficient
Right Coronary Artery
- correct answer Posterior RV free wall and septum
Posterior LV
Left Circumflex (from left coronary: right dominant)
- correct answer LV lateral wall
Left Anterior Descending
- correct answer Apex
Anterior LV
Anterior 2/3 Ventricular septum
Arteriolosclerosis
- correct answer Hyaline thickening in vessels (kidneys, hypertension, diabetes)
Atherosclerosis
- correct answer Plaques (atheroma) in vessels
Arteriosclerosis
- correct answer rigidity, thickening of vessels
, Monckeberg Arteriosclerosis
- correct answer Radial and ulnar arteries, calcific sclerosis of the media of arteries (so blood flow is not
obstructed)
Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis
- correct answer Streptococcus Viridans, mitral valve ( also include aortic valve)
IV Drug users= Strep viridans and tricuspid valve
Large, soft, friable easily detached vegetations
Complications: ulceration of valves, perforation of cusps, rupture of chordae tendineae
Nonbacterial Endocarditis (Marantic endocarditis)
- correct answer Metastatic cancer, wasting conditions
Small, sterile fibrin deposits randomly arranged along the line of the valve leaflets
Peripheral embolization
Sterile emboli
Libman-Sacks Endocarditis
- correct answer Lupus
Small vegetations on either or both surfaces of valve leaflets
Endocarditis Carcinoid Syndrome
- correct answer Right side cusps thickened endocardial plaques
Rubella (German Measles)
- correct answer Risk highest shortly before conception to 16th wk gestation
Right Sided Heart Failure
- correct answer Left sided heart failure
Pulmonary hypertension
Right valvular disease (tricuspid and pulmonary)
Left-sided lesions (mitral stenosis)
Congestive hepatosplenomegaly and renal hypoxia
