Best Practice No 171: Best practice in thyroid pathology

Best practice in thyroid pathology.

Thyroid pathology is a specialist area but is often encountered by the general pathologist in a variety of forms including cytology, frozen sections, and resection specimens. In the thyroid gland, as for other endocrine organs, many aspects of diagnosis are unique to this area of histopathology; thus, the aims of this paper are to set out best practice guidelines which, although not entirely co...

Best Practice No 177: Best practice guideline: writing a business case for service development in pathology.

This guideline reviews the introduction and development of business planning in the National Health Service. A guideline for writing a business case for service development that would form part of a pathology business plan has been developed. This guideline outlines six steps that are required in the preparation of a business case. The format of the guideline has been developed largely from oth...

Leaders Best Practice No 164 Necropsy techniques in ophthalmic pathology

Much important information can be obtained at necropsy by the pathological examination of the eye and its adnexal structures in adults and children. This information may be related to the cause of death (for example, violent shaking trauma in physical child abuse), or may pertain to disease processes aVecting the eye, the orbit, and surrounding structures outside the orbit. This article reviews...

Best Practice No 158 Neuropathology

Health and safety It is essential that staV are aware of the health and safety issues. The main danger of infection in neuropathology arises from the handling and processing of tissues from cases of AIDS, CreutzfeldtJakob disease (CJD), and tuberculosis. All members of the department and mortuary staV should be immunised against hepatitis B. Because potentially dangerous cases can be encountere...

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