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===Suggestive of infection===
===Suggestive of infection===
*Necrotic granulomas.
*Necrotic [[granulomas]].


===Cardiac===
===Cardiac===

Revision as of 16:22, 3 June 2011

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

Cardiac

  • Mesothelial cells in heart muscle biopsy.

Transplant related

  • Transplant rejection.

Medical diseases

  • Vasculitis.

Renal

  • Crescents in kidney biopsy.

See also

References

External links