Critical values

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Critical values is a concept which comes to anatomical pathology from clinical pathology.[1] In the context of surgical pathology, it is, perhaps more appropriately, called critical diagnosis.

List

General

  • Large vessel in core biopsy specimen.
  • Unexpected malignant diagnosis.
  • Malignant diagnosis in the context of a medical emergency:
    • Neoplasm causing paralysis.
    • Malignancy causing superior vena cava syndrome.

Cytology

Article looking at critical values in cytology: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112606899.

Gynecologic

  • No chorionic villi or trophoblasts on D&C in someone pregnant.
  • Fat on endometrial biopsy.
  • Fat on endocervical canal sampling.

Diagnostic of infection

  • Fungal.
  • Microbacterial.
  • Bacterial.
  • Viral.

Suggestive of infection

  • Necrotic granulomas.

Cardiac

  • Mesothelial cells in heart muscle biopsy.

Transplant related

  • Transplant rejection.

Medical diseases

  • Vasculitis.

Renal

  • Crescents in kidney biopsy.

References

  1. ↑ Allen TC (May 2007). "Critical values in anatomic pathology?". Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 131 (5): 684–7. PMID 17491125. http://arpa.allenpress.com/arpaonline/?request=get-document&issn=0003-9985&volume=131&issue=5&page=684.

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