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==Main steps== | ==Main steps== | ||
*Preferably, look up past '''medical history''' of the patient, mainly past cancers that could possibly appear in the current specimen. | *Preferably, look up past '''medical history''' of the patient, mainly past cancers that could possibly appear in the current specimen. | ||
*Look at each microscopy slide by '''eye''', to plan the microscopy screening so as to not miss peripheral fragments. | *Look at each microscopy slide by plain '''eye''', to plan the microscopy screening so as to not miss peripheral fragments. | ||
*Have a '''systematic direction''' of screening through microscopy slides, such as from top left to bottom right as seen in the microscope. When the microscope makes what you see two-way mirrored, the starting position is with the objective pointing at the bottom right of the glass slide. | *Have a '''systematic direction''' of screening through microscopy slides, such as from top left to bottom right as seen in the microscope. When the microscope makes what you see two-way mirrored, the starting position is with the objective pointing at the bottom right of the glass slide. | ||
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File:Microscopy slide scanning.jpg|Example slide scanning directions. | File:Microscopy slide scanning.jpg|Example slide scanning directions. | ||
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*Look in particular for whatever is '''requested''' or '''suspected''' on the requisition form or equivalent. | |||
While learning, you will generally focus relatively more on high magnification features with high specificity, but still have a habit of learning how your cases look at '''low magnification''' as well. In time, you will increasingly correlate diseases and conditions with their overall low magnification patterns - patterns that may require 1000 words to describe and thus cannot conveniently be part of written criteria, but will nevertheless allow you to make quicker and more accurate diagnoses. | While learning, you will generally focus relatively more on high magnification features with high specificity, but still have a habit of learning how your cases look at '''low magnification''' as well. In time, you will increasingly correlate diseases and conditions with their overall low magnification patterns - patterns that may require 1000 words to describe and thus cannot conveniently be part of written criteria, but will nevertheless allow you to make quicker and more accurate diagnoses. | ||