The demonstration of surgical specimens, whether using 35-mm slides or digital images, tends to consist of the sequential presentation of images. Current digital technology permits a more flexible ...

This is a surgical specimen of an antiepileptic-resistant patient with temporal lobe epilepsy, which represents a unique access to the human brain tissue (upper left). Nerve cells, visible as blue ...

This group consisted of patients who had obvious clinical or x-ray characteristics of granulomatous colitis but who did not have granulomas in the surgical specimen. The clinical criteria included ...

What do surgical margins mean? Answer: After the surgeon removes the tissue from the breast, it's examined by the pathologist under the microscope. The margins are the edges of the specimen that ...

Section Director: Jay Wasman, M.D. Our Department processes approximately 35,000 surgical specimens per year. In addition, the Department of Dermatology accessions and signs out approximately 18,000 ...

and the growth of pathogens in cultures of surgical specimens. To help obviate the need to operate on a patient who may not have an implant-associated infection, one can rely on certain ...

This institution averages ~16000 specimens/ year, and provides hands-on and allows residents and fellows to cut and perform their own frozen sections. Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is a private ...