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PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT ASCP EXAM
WITH CORRECT ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED
ANSWERS LATEST ALREADY GRADED A+
2025 – 2026
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
, 2
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
, 3
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
, 4
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
PATHOLOGY ASSISTANT ASCP EXAM
WITH CORRECT ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECTLY WELL DEFINED
ANSWERS LATEST ALREADY GRADED A+
2025 – 2026
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
, 2
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
, 3
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
, 4
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
