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===Pre-autopsy===
===Pre-autopsy===
*Filling in a death certificate.
*Filling in a death certificate.
**WHO standard for 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===
===Autopsy===
*Identifying medical examiner cases/coroner's cases.
*Identifying medical examiner cases/coroner's cases.
*Getting an autopsy consent.
*Getting an [[autopsy consent]].
**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''.
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===Surgical pathology===
===Surgical pathology===
*Interpreting pathology reports.
*Ordering laboratory tests.
**Infectious cases - role of culture.
*Interpreting [[pathology reports]].


===Cancer diagnoses===
===Cancer diagnoses===
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*''[[Melanoma]]''.
*''[[Melanoma]]''.
*''[[Mesothelioma]]''.
*''[[Mesothelioma]]''.
*[[Adenocarcinoma]] not otherwise specified.
 
Implication of ''not otherwise specified'':
*''[[Adenocarcinoma]]''.
*''[[Squamous cell carcinoma]]''.


Prognostic factors:
Prognostic factors:
*Staging & grade.
*Stage & grade.
**TMN staging system.
**[[TNM staging system]].
*[[Lymphovascular invasion]].
*[[Lymphovascular invasion]].
*[[Perineural invasion]].
*[[Perineural invasion]].

Revision as of 14:07, 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:

Techniques

See also

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