Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping-Pathology Protocol.

Topics include :

1. Definition of Sentinel Lymph node
2. Procedure of Sentinel LN
3. How to process and report sentinel LN
4. What is significance

New Pathology Links

Dear friends, we have added 4 New links in our Great Pathology Sites (in right side panel), have a look and give your comments

Digital Atlas of Breast Pathology
Digital Atlas of Gynecological Pathology
Pathology Images
Oncopathology Blog

Monday, March 30, 2009

Renal biopsy- a short note

it's in a short about various procedures which are in use to perform renal biopsy. dedicated to the exam goings.

all u want to know about investigating male infertility

hi, especially, to all my juniors who r going to appear in the pg exams.
While searching for testicular biopsy i stumbled upon this article on evaluation of male infertility, and found it both interesting as well as informative and recent. if u have lots of leisure time :0 then take a look at it.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Dear subscribers

As I am appearing in my PG exam next month I want be able to post new material for about one month from now, see you soon...

btw. other authors will keep posting

-sharad

Monday, March 23, 2009

PATHOINDIA


There r very few sites, one finds interesting on the first look and later become a fan of it. One of them is pathoindia.com.The case discussions and reviews of the slides is very informative. One thing, which i like most about it, is that u can also give ur opinion on the slides, and then compare with other pathologists' view. try it out, u will find it interesting too...

Sunday, March 22, 2009

How to download google books



Recently I have found a way to download Google books, which I am sharing here, this is for educational purpose only(for google too!!)
After extensive searching I found three ways, two of them no longer works or didn't work for me, first is a software called Google book downloader which is suppose to download books in PDF format, I tried its recent GBD-0.1.0.alpha8 version but it didn't work for me, second I tried a website leechvideo which again didn't work.

Idea which worked successfully is this

First of all you need Firefox, IE doesnt work

Then install add on Greasemonkey , search through firefox add on, you should easily find this, it allows you to run various screepts through your browser, which can modify appearance of websites, after complete installation icon will appear on lower right of your browser

Now you will need a script called [ Userscript ] Google Book Downloader, after installing this script whenever you will open the google books site, you will find a download button on upper right hand corner, click on it, it will list all the availabe pages of the books

Then one last plugin called FlashGot, this will download all the pages you have selected, just rignt click after selecting the pages and then click FlashGot Selected, or click FlashGot all for all pages


TRAPS IN this method: there are few points where you might get trapped,

dont try to install userscript before installing greasymonkey

dont search for books from www.google.com, because links generated is not compatible with this method, rather go direcly to http://books.google.com

In flashGot options select "browser built in", option rather than w-get

Downloaded pages are saved without extension (i.e, *.jpg, *.png), google uses either jpg or png format randomly for different pages in the same book, so you will have to apply correct extension by trial and error method(tiring thing) before you will be able to open the page in windows, If you are using UBUNTU, all pages can be opened without extension because Ubuntu recongnises format without using extension as windows does

converting to PDF with acrobat pro will require the correct extension behind name of every picture file generated even if you are using Ubuntu, but this is easier with Ubuntu as file property will tell you the correct format

and last thing you can download only available pages , so search for only full view books

All the best, dont forget to comment about your experience, your suggestion are welcome

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Benigh mimics of Urothelial Malignancies


This is a presentation prepared from combined material from various sources, describing urothelial neoplasms, their benign mimics and differential diagnosis

Link

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Bethesda system for Thyroid FNAC

This is a powerpoint file of a lecture by Dr Ed Cibas, from November 2008, describing the latest and final version of The Bethesda Thyroid FNA Terminology and Classification that will be appearing in the Bethesda Thyroid FNA Slide Atlas, to be published by Springer in the autumn (fall) of 2009. The presentation describes how the final decisions about the Bethesda Thyroid FNA terminology were made and some of the reasoning behind the various names adopted for the different FNA categories in the Bethesda Thyroid FNA System. The content of this lecture also supersedes what the Bethesda working group have previously published on the conference website and also in the various articles in Diagnostic Cytopathology in June 2008

LINK

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Webpathology


High quality histopathology images, organised by system, currently includes genitourinary system, lymphnodes and spleen. Image quality is excellent

Link

California tumor tissue registry


This site provides new Histopathology case study every month with detailed case history, discussion, differential diagnosis and high quality photographs

You can see older case studies by searching months name in search box provide e.g., search for "october 2008" to look for case study of oct. 2008.

Link

Sunday, March 8, 2009

WHO books- full view

Who books, with latest classification of tumors, along with detailed histopathology, clinical features, genetics and in some cases cytology is available on google books for online view

LINK

Friday, March 6, 2009

Good news for Doctors

Whenever a consumer forum or a criminal court receives a complaint against a doctor, it should refer the matter to a panel of experts. Only after the committee reports that there is a prima facie case of medical negligence should a notice be issued to the doctor or hospital concerned.

This is necessary to avoid harassment to doctors who may not be ultimately found to be negligent. Courts and consumer fora are not experts in medical science and must not hold their own views over that of specialists.

The court also warned police officials not to arrest or harass doctors unless the facts were in line with earlier apex court guidelines. Otherwise the policemen will themselves have to face legal action.

Indian Journal of Medical Ethics


Times of India

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Bakwas about slumdog


"THIS ARTICLE IS NOTHING BUT AND ATTEMPT TO GAIN A CHEAP PUBLICITY BY CRITICIZING A POPULAR AND WELL MADE MOVIE, JUST LIKE RAJ THAKRE ATTACKING AMITABH BACHCHAN", there are so many worse thing to criticize but why people choose only popular things, and unfortunately this movie shows only truth, there is nothing to critisize there man!!

For some people it is hard to believe that foreigners can create good movie about India and become popular, but the truth is truth, the first thing that came to my mind after reading the article is, Raj thakre trying to throw out non marathi's out of maharashtra, and criticizing Jaya bachchhan just for a shake of being in news. This mentality should change, cant we accept the simple truth.., slums are there, and reality is probably worse than shown in movie, No one becomes carorepati so easily, just accept that
I dont know why person like Arindam is running after such cheap publicity, I just want to ask, Are you going to join politics??


UPDATE: Phot of child selling Sunday Indian- Arindam's brand, Who opposes slumdog millionaire for showing poverty and child abuse in India

Link to Arindam's post