Nicole Angemi - Nicole Angemis Anatomy Book: A Catalog of Familiar, Rare, and Unusual Pathologies

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INTRODUCTION

ANGEMI ANATOMY CRASH COURSE

A / ABDOMEN

EAGLE-BARRETT SYNDROME

ENDOMETRIOSIS

LINEA NIGRA

ADRENAL GLAND

ADDISONS DISEASE

CUSHING SYNDROME

PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA

ANUS

CANCER

HEMORRHOIDS

PROCTECTOMY

APPENDIX

APPENDICITIS

PSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI

ARM

TRAUMA

B / BLADDER

CANCER

BONE

EWINGS SARCOMA

GIANT CELL TUMOR

PECTUS EXCAVATUM

THORACIC OUTLET SYNDROME

BRAIN

SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE / ANEURYSM

BREAST

CANCER / IMPLANTS

GYNECOMASTIA

PHYLLODES TUMOR

MASTITIS

C / CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS

DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS

HEMATOMA

RAYNAUDS PHENOMENON

VENOUS MALFORMATION

D / DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

BEZOAR

CELIAC DISEASE

COLON CANCER

STOMACH CANCER

ESOPHAGEAL ULCER

E / EAR

ACCESSORY TRAGUS

PERICHONDRIAL HEMATOMA

MICROTIA AND ATRESIA

KELOID

EYE

CHALAZION

COLOBOMA

CORNEAL ABRASION / SUBCONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE

HERPES

TRAUMA / PROSTHETIC

F / FASCIA

NECROTIZING FASCIITIS

FEET

HALLUX VALGUS (BUNIONS)

PLANTAR WART

POLYSYNDACTYLY

G / GALLBLADDER

GALLSTONES

H / HAIR

ALOPECIA

POLIOSIS CIRCUMSCRIPTA

PILONIDAL CYST

HANDS

ACROSYNDACTYLY

SYMBRACHYDACTYLY

GUNSHOT WOUND

HEART

AORTIC ANEURYSM

TRANSPLANT

I / IMMUNE SYSTEM

ALLERGY

LUPUS

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

J / JAW

ODONTOGENIC MYXOMA

JOINTS

EHLERS-DANLOS SYNDROME

GOUT

K / KIDNEY

DUPLICATED URETER / HYDRONEPHROSIS

LIVING DONOR

ONCOCYTOMA

POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE

L / LIVER

ALCOHOLIC CIRRHOSIS

BILIARY ATRESIA

LYMPHATIC SYSTEM

PRIMARY LYMPHEDEMA

SECONDARY LYMPHEDEMA

M / MALE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

ORCHIECTOMY

VASECTOMY

PENIS TRAUMA

N / NAILS

BEAU LINES

AVULSION

CLUBBING

NERVOUS SYSTEM

PARAPLEGIA

NOSE

PERFORATED NASAL SEPTUM

TRAUMA / NECROSIS

O / OVARIES

MALIGNANT MIXED GERM CELL TUMOR

TERATOMA

TORSION

P / PANCREAS

WHIPPLE

PLACENTA

VELAMENTOUS CORD INSERTION

Q / QUADRICEPS

TENDON RUPTURE

R / RESPIRATORY

CYSTIC FIBROSIS / LUNG TRANSPLANT

S / SALIVARY GLAND

SIALOLITHIASIS

SKIN

GIANT CONGENITAL MELANOCYTIC NEVUS

MELANOMA

RADIATION DERMATITIS

T / TEETH

NATAL TEETH

THROAT

GONORRHEA

THYMUS

MYASTHENIA GRAVIS

THYROID

GOITER

TONGUE

FISSURED TONGUE

TRAUMA

PYOGENIC GRANULOMA

U / UTERUS

FIBROIDS

UTERINE DIDELPHYS

V / VAGINA

EPISIOTOMY / INFECTION

VULVA

VULVAR INTRAEPITHELIAL NEOPLASIA

W / WOMB

HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK

AMNIOTIC BAND SYNDROME

X & Y / X & Y CHROMOSOMES

KLINEFELTER SYNDROME

Z / ZYGOMATIC

FRACTURE

INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Im no different than any other middle-aged, married mother of three. I drive my kids around to their soccer games and jiujitsu training, have movie nights with my family, cook dinner, and enjoy doing arts and crafts projects around my house. Oh, and I also dissect humans on the side!

Aside from being a wife and mother, I am a pathologists assistant. A pathologists assistant, or PA, is a trained medical professional that works in a hospitals pathology department. PAs specialize in human anatomy, abnormal anatomy, and disease. Some PAs work in a hospitals surgical pathology laboratory dissecting organs and body parts that are removed from live patients, while others work in hospital morgues performing autopsies.

Throughout the course of my career, Ive dissected thousands of humans and human body parts using my specialized training and experience. By carefully looking at the anatomy, Im able to determine whats normal and what causes a patient to have pathology both in life and in death.

Growing up, I never felt normal or like I fit in until I found pathology. Finally, I began to feel normal when I discovered the abnormal. This was my calling!

As a child, I wasnt an academic and hated school. Bored and rebellious, I often got myself into trouble. Detentions, suspensions, and frequent phone calls to my parents just touched the surface of the problems I dealt with growing up. My stubbornness and impulsivity eventually led me to a teen pregnancy at fourteen years old.

After months of anger and sadness, my parents and I decided the best thing for our family and our beliefs was to keep the baby. At fifteen years old, I gave birth to my daughter, Maria. Keeping her was the best decision Ive ever made. In fact, she saved my life.

Being a teen mom was rough, both socially and academically. I struggled in school with friends, and dating. My life was so different from anyone I knew. The years following my pregnancy were difficult. I had a kid, yet was a kid myself, and trying to find my way. At sixteen, I dropped out of high school and hopped from job to job with no real direction.

A couple of years later, my parents were notified that my daughter and I would both no longer be covered under their health insurance. I was only nineteen and had to get a job with benefits quickly. Having no motivation or interest in anything, this was really a blessing in disguise. I was forced to get my shit together.

Remember how I said I hated school? I really did. The very thought of it made me want to take a nap. Suddenly, I found myself enrolling in my local community college in the summer of 1999 after deciding I would try to be a nurse.

Why did I choose nursing? It was not because I was compassionate, nurturing, and wanted to help people. I had a cousin who was an RN. It seemed like it was a solid, dependable, well-paying career she obtained in less than three years. At this time, being in school for the least amount of time possible was a huge motivating factor.