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Starting pathology (entire handbook)

277 bytes added, 10:47, 5 November 2021
This resource is written with the intention to teach you what to do in various situations you are expected to encounter during your first years of pathology training, at least until the point that you are usually fairly confident about what disease or condition you have at hand, because then you know what words to use to look it up in the vast literature out there. At that point, the fastest way to get more information is generally by Googling the disease or condition name, followed by ''pathology'' or ''pathology outlines''. If you just want to see more micrographs of the disease or condition, the fastest way is generally to Google the condition and then clicking the Images tab. Specific searches for specific purposes include:
*Adding '''cancer.net staging''' in Google searches for definitions of cancer stages, for example Googling ''prostate cancer cancer.net staging''. The first search will then generally be the one from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
*Considering a subscription for '''ImmunoQuery''' in order to get suggestions of what immunohistochemistry markers to choose whenever you are left with two or more differential diagnoses for a case, rather than trying to memorize all immunohistochemistry markers for all conditions.<ref group=notes>The author does not receive any payment or other incentive from any ImmunoQuery-related person or entity.</ref>
'''Ask a colleague''' at least whenever your own memory or a resource search is not enough, and there is a significant risk that you will do something irreversible that will negatively affect a patient.

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