Some aspects of practical pathology in the former Soviet Union, having a potential impact on the diagnostic quality, as well as possible mechanisms of false-positive diagnostics of malignant and premalignant lesions after the Chernobyl accident were discussed previously. In particular, overdiagnosis appears probable in regard to the bladder lesions detected in the radio-contaminated areas. Some...

Pathology. A simple extension to HTML is presented, whose aim is introducing a general-purpose grouping construct to allow the semantic markup of hierarchically structured hypermedia documents. Such a structural information can be used for an effective authoring, browsing and searching of documents. The authoring tool HistMaker is introduced on the basis of a model of a pathologic case; its imp...

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...

This article is a brief review of Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy. It begins with a discussion of the Platonic, Aristotelian, and Neo-Platonic influences on Ibn Sīnā’s practical philosophy, as well as the influence of Fārābī and of Islamic religious teachings. The creative synthesis invented by Ibn Sīnā requires a particular view of the relation between religion and philosophy in such a manner ...

This is a good book, and supplies a real need. It is very clear and concise, omits freaks and varieties, and is not overburdened with pathology or details of operations which no one but an expert should attempt. It aims at providing a textbook for the student reading for the colleges or a pass degree, and we think he will find it simpler and clearer than some of its competitors. It is eminently...

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The histology and the pathology clinical practice undergo a digital revolution. Essential change in laboratory practice - from classical light microscopes, thousands of glass specimens waiting on plates to a virtual microscope and onscreen diagnosis is right now. Currently there are more than 30 different systems for the Virtual Microscopy available on the market. However none of them is so ori...

This, the first volume, deals with General Surgery, contains over 750 pages, with 262 wood engravings, which are chiefly original. It is a handy volume, resembling Mr. Pentland's publications of Muir and Ritchie's Bacteriology and Cunningham's Anatomy. The work may be confidently recommended as a reliable guide to the student, in which theoretical points are mostly eliminated, and pathology tre...

There has been explosive growth in the utilization of cross-sectional imaging studies in the evaluation of patients with known or suspected abdominal and pelvic pathology. These imaging studies have led to a veritable epidemic of incidentally detected adnexal masses in both oncology and non-oncology patient populations that in the past remained undiscovered. In this commentary we provide some g...

I Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil. II Division of Urology, Hospital Regional São José Florianopolis/SC, Brazil. III Department of Pathology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil. Email: [email protected] Tel.: 55 48 3223.0816 AppROpRIATE uTILIzATIOn Of q...