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View article: Supporting the Deceased, Their Families, and Their Communities – Part 2: Practical Guidance for Building an Office of Decedent Affairs
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Context.— After-death care can be complicated and time-consuming for clinical staff, and frustrating for bereaved families. Delays and errors can have damaging legal and reputational consequences for hospitals. Offices of Decedent Affairs …
View article: Supporting the Deceased, Their Families, and Their Communities – Part 1: Why Establish an Office of Decedent Affairs
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Context.— Decedent Affairs Offices and Programs can serve as an avenue to assist medical centers in facilitating efficient and comprehensive decedent management, despite a paucity of literature on their roles, establishment, and efficacy. …
View article: A Large Postmortem Database of COVID-19 Patients Can Inform Disease Research and Public Policy Decision Making
A Large Postmortem Database of COVID-19 Patients Can Inform Disease Research and Public Policy Decision Making Open
Context.— Autopsies performed on COVID-19 patients have provided critical information about SARS-CoV-2’s tropism, mechanisms of tissue injury, and spectrum of disease. Objective.— To provide an updated database of postmortem disease in COV…
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Cancer Cytopathology, a journal of the American Cancer Society, provides a unique forum for interaction and dissemination of original research and educational information relevant to the practice of cytopathology and its related oncologic …
View article: A Postmortem Portrait of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Large Multi-institutional Autopsy Survey Study
A Postmortem Portrait of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic: A Large Multi-institutional Autopsy Survey Study Open
Context.— This study represents the largest compilation to date of clinical and postmortem data from decedents with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). It will augment previously published small series of autopsy case reports, refine clin…
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Cancer Cytopathology, a journal of the American Cancer Society, provides a unique forum for interaction and dissemination of original research and educational information relevant to the practice of cytopathology and its related oncologic …
View article: Insights into pathogenesis of fatal COVID‐19 pneumonia from histopathology with immunohistochemical and viral RNA studies
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Introduction We describe post‐mortem pulmonary histopathologic findings of COVID‐19 pneumonia in patients with a spectrum of disease course, from rapid demise to prolonged hospitalisation. Methods and results Histopathologic findings in po…
View article: Death by cat bite: Pasteurella multocida: Autopsy findings and review of the literature
Death by cat bite: Pasteurella multocida: Autopsy findings and review of the literature Open
Pasteurella multocida, a gram-negative bacillus, is present in the oropharyngeal secretions of livestock, wild animals, and domesticated pets and can cause infection in humans. The most common route of entry has been shown to be via an ani…
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Cancer Cytopathology, a journal of the American Cancer Society, provides a unique forum for interaction and dissemination of original research and educational information relevant to the practice of cytopathology and its related oncologic …
View article: Autopsy Service Death Certificate Review
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Context.— Despite the importance of accurate death statistics for epidemiologic studies and public health initiatives, there remains a high frequency of errors in death certification. This deficiency can be addressed by the hospital autops…
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Cancer Cytopathology, a journal of the American Cancer Society, provides a unique forum for interaction and dissemination of original research and educational information relevant to the practice of cytopathology and its related oncologic …
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This news section is written by a medical journalist and offers Cancer Cytopathology readers timely information on events, issues, and personalities of interest to the subspecialty.This edition explores the potential of noninvasive liquid …
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This editorial discusses the pathology of noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features, the proposed changes to its diagnostic criteria
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This news section is written by a medical journalist and offers Cancer Cytopathology readers timely information on events, issues, and personalities of interest to the subspecialty.This edition explores the hidden costs of surviving childh…
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This news section is written by a medical journalist and offers Cancer Cytopathology readers timely information on events, issues, and personalities of interest to the subspecialty.This edition explores the potential effects of hormone-bas…
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Ancillary studies play a critical role in the cytologic evaluation of lesions from many different anatomic sites.However, the wide and continually expanding range of ancillary markers available can be daunting for the practicing cytopathol…
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There is more to urinary cytology than searching for malignant urothelial cells.To illustrate this point, in this commentary the author also briefly reviews a very common condition in Africa and the Middle East that is amenable to cytologi…
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Screening for anal cancer has been proposed in certain high-risk populations using strategies adapted from cervical cancer prevention.This narrative and systematic review and meta-analysis summarizes clinical performance estimates of anal …
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The use of the equivocal and elusive diagnosis of "atypia" in our daily practice cannot be completely eliminated as it continues to be a useful category for filling the gap between what is recognizable as normal (or at least a version of n…
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This news section is written by a medical journalist and offers Cancer Cytopathology readers timely information on events, issues, and personalities of interest to the subspecialty.In this edition, we explore the growing challenge of findi…
View article: In Defense of the Academic Autopsy
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As academic autopsy pathologists, we read with dismay the editorial entitled “A New Kind of Autopsy for 21st Century Medicine” in the July 2017 issue of the Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.1 Based on the criticisms of the autop…
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In 2015, the Endocrine Pathology Society introduced the term "noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features" (NIFTP) to replace the noninvasive follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma category.Herei…
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This review of the literature on pediatric malignant thyroid lesions emphasizes the role of cytology in enabling the correct identification of specific malignant entities and their distribution in the diagnostic categories.The higher incid…
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Given the recent approval by the US Food and Drug Administration of an anti-programmed cell death protein 1 agent as a first-line therapy for patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) immunohistoc…
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The past 20 years in cytopathology have demonstrated tremendous growth and evolution in the cytopathology of organs located below the diaphragm, with much of the progress centering on the pancreas.Cancer Cytopathology has been at the foref…
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In the mid-1990s, cytopathologists believed they were at the pinnacle of lung cancer diagnosis.Herein, Dr. Leiman reviews the past 20 years of Cancer Cytopathology, and discusses the developments that have carried pulmonary cytopathology i…
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3 of these tests: Afirma, ThyGenX/ThyraMIR, and ThyroSeq.