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January 26, 2012
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India’s first virtual Cancer Pathology diagnostic centre

Its is my great pleasure to inform you that  Oncopath Diagnostics-India’s first virtual Cancer Pathology centre has started at Pune. !!!! With the help of India’s first and Only digital pathology slide scanning  system at Oncopath diagnostics, pathologists from USA, UK and Canada will be able to provide expert consultation to patients in India !!!! This centre will be specially helpful for patients and physicians/pathologists [...]

Mimics of Prostate Cancer

www.oncopathology.info. Atrophy looks suspicious for adenocarcinoma at first glance. the nuclei are small and hyperchromatic. No prominent nucleoli are seen. Some glands are lined by obviously benign flattened atrophic epithelium. The immunostain for high molecular weight cytokeratin can be helpful in distinguishing between atrophy (fragmented basal cell layer) from atrophic variant of prostatic adenocarcinoma (no [...]

Blood Bank Guy Now with Blog

I would hope that nearly all physicians in the course medical school, residency, fellowship and junior staff time encounter a mentor or two along the way. I have been fortunate enough to have several good mentors and a few great ones. Among those is Dr. Joe Chaffin, recently appointed medical director and vice president of [...]

The (un)reliability of medical research

There is an interesting article in this month’s Atlantic Monthly regarding the “flexible” nature of medical statistics and the way that researchers (often unknowingly) massage statistical analyses to support favored hypotheses. The article is essentially a layman’s overview of the work of John P. A. Ioannidis, whose paper “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False” [...]

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October 16, 2010
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Case of the Week 59

The following were an incidental finding at autopsy. Shown are hematoxylin and eosin stained sections of human tongue:

Compendium of Online Pathology Resources

Below, you’ll find a list of links to some excellent Pathology-related websites from professional organizations, to study cases, to blogs. These are all sites that I’ve found useful over the past three years as a resident at Albany Medical Center, and, hopefully, they can be of use to you as well!

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