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**Understanding the hierarchy. | **Understanding the hierarchy. | ||
**Knowing the difference between ''executer of the estate'' and ''power of attorney for health care decisions''. | **Knowing the difference between ''executer of the estate'' and ''power of attorney for health care decisions''. | ||
*Value of doing an autopsy. | *[[Value of autopsy|Value of doing an autopsy]]. | ||
*Important clinical information. | *Important clinical information. | ||
**Clinical history - past medical history. | **Clinical history - past medical history. | ||
Revision as of 14:09, 9 January 2013
This article is an introduction to pathology for family doctors.
Compentencies
Pre-autopsy
- Filling in a death certificate.
- Difference between manner of death and cause of death.
- Difference between manner of death and mechanism of death.
- World Health Organization standard for death certificates.
Autopsy
- Identifying medical examiner cases/coroner's cases.
- Getting an autopsy consent.
- Understanding the hierarchy.
- Knowing the difference between executer of the estate and power of attorney for health care decisions.
- Value of doing an autopsy.
- Important clinical information.
- Clinical history - past medical history.
- Events leading-up to death.
- Provisional/suspected cause of death.
Surgical pathology
- Ordering laboratory tests.
- Infectious cases - role of culture.
- Interpreting pathology reports.
Cancer diagnoses
Pitfalls:
Implication of not otherwise specified:
Prognostic factors:
- Stage & grade.
- Lymphovascular invasion.
- Perineural invasion.
- Margin status.
Techniques
- Immunohistochemical stains.
- Targeted therapies.
- Receptors in breast cancer.