Ankur R. Sangoi, MD
Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

William M. Rogers, MD
Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Teri A. Longacre, MD
Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Jose G. Montoya, MD
Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Ellen Jo Baron, PhD
Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Niaz Banaei, MD
Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Keywords: Culture; Cytology; Fungal; Fungi; Histology; Hyphae; Identification; Mold; Morphology; Yeast

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

• discuss histopathologic challenges of identification of fungi in tissue sections and cytologic preparations.
• describe fungi with similar morphologic features on histopathology sections.
• describe different growth rates of various fungi.
• describe measures that improve diagnostic accuracy of morphologic identification of fungal infections in histology and cytology specimens.