BIOPSY AND POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION Flashcards
trans based
2 major areas of pathology
clinical pathology
anatomical pathology
Studying tissues affected by the disease
histopathology
professionals under histopathology
pathologist
associate pathologist
histotechnologist
Ensuring that everything is right
quality assurance
Set of coordinated activities to regulate a lab in order to continually improve its performance
Quality management systems
receiving to specimen accessioning down to mounting
pre-analytic
Actual reading of the slides
analytic
releasing of results
post-analytic
give me 5 examples of reports
Patient report
Telephone report
Preliminary report
Final report
Incident report
what are the documents needed in the histopathology laboratory
request forms
reports
accession logbooks
preventive maintenance
types of results
surgical pathology
cytopathology
autopsy report
tat of surgical pathology and cytology
2 days
tat of frozen sections
5-15 minutes
tat of autopsy report
7 days
Used for different processes that we are performing
instruments
differentiate autopsy from biopsy
autopsy is the tissue examination of the dead, while biopsy is the tissue examination of the living