o b jective: to evaluate the accuracy of surgeons’ intraoperative diagnosis in open appendectomy and compare it with the histopathology examination results afterwards. m ethods: this was a cross-sectional retrospective study accomplished in namazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences, in a one-year period from 2007 to 2008. medical charts of all the patients who were ...

Ocular melanoma is rare in clinical practice. In this study, we present three cases of ocular melanoma surgically removed in the Department of Ophthalmology of the Emergency University Hospital of Bucharest, Romania, and diagnosed in the Department of Pathology of the same hospital using conventional histopathological techniques and immunohistochemical tests.

Improvements in immunosuppression have reduced acute kidney allograft rejection and clinicians are now seeking ways to prolong allograft survival to 20 years and beyond. The primary cause of kidney allograft loss is still chronic rejection, followed by death with a functioning allograft and primary kidney disease recurrence. Thus, overcoming kidney allograft rejection remains the most important...

TOPIC: Lung Pathology TYPE: Original Investigations PURPOSE: It has been reported that AEP histopathologically exhibits diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) with eosinophilia. However, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), interstitial pneumonia (AIP), and exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, also exhibiting DAD histopathologically, are all life-threatening diseases. AFP is rapidly imp...