Academic pathologists perform clinical duties, as well as valuable nonclinical activities. Nonclinical activities may consist of research, teaching, and administrative management among many other important tasks. While clinical duties have many clear metrics to measure productivity, like the relative value units of Medicare reimbursement, nonclinical performance is often difficult to measure. D...

Tissue biomarker scoring by pathologists is central to defining the appropriate therapy for patients with cancer. Yet, inter-pathologist variability in the interpretation of ambiguous cases can affect diagnostic accuracy. Modern artificial intelligence methods such as deep learning have the potential to supplement pathologist expertise to ensure constant diagnostic accuracy. We developed a comp...

The sexual morph of Aecidium goyazense collected in the Brazilian Cerrado was morphologically characterized by light microscopy and SEM, and shown to be a species of Uromyces, for which the name Uromyces hawksworthii nom. nov. is introduced, and designated as its epitype. This is the second Uromyces species known to infect the tropical genus Phthirusa (Loranthaceae). DNA sequences were generate...

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With the publication in this issue of " Stuck Between a Scalpel and a Rock, or Molecular Pathology and Legal-Ethical Issues in Use of Tissues for Clinical Care and Research: What Must a Pathologist Know? " by Dry et al, 1 we launch a new series for the American Journal of Clinical Pathology in a forward-looking celebration of the Journal's commitment to readers' education. It will include invit...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma is the sixth most common malignancy. High morbidity and mortality, lack of response to radio-and chemotherapy and signifi cant reduction in the quality of life in patients after surgical procedures in the head and neck region stress the need for more eff ective methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease recurrence. In the past, pathologist on...

The isolation of pathogenic fungi is more difficult than most physicians appreciate and the average hospital bacteriology laboratory approaches the problem in a half-hearted and uninstructed manner. Too often the diagnosis is a “coup de grace” administered by the pathologist at the clinical pathological conference. As a matter of fact, a considerable number of deep mycoses must go unrecognized ...