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Please see below some of the most useful links for trainee pathologists
General and training
Powerpoint presentations from the April 2008 BDIAP seminar "Approach to Cut-Up; Macroscopic Examination as the Precursor to Accurate Microscopic Interpretation" are available. See links for lung cut-up, Skin, Upper GI, Lower GI, Breast, Urology, Gynae, and Endocrine
Royal College of Pathologists -
Histopathnet - Password-protected UK trainee website includes lots of case studies
WHO tumour classifications - many of the fascicles are online here as free pdf files!
Leeds Virtual Pathology - Some good high resolution virtual slides including online quizzes. Takes a bit of getting used to and need a fast computer but a very useful resource!
Southampton Histopathology Meeting resources - Some excellent talks and case studies here!
Notes and pictures
Pathology Outlines - Excellent up to date site includes bulleted notes and links to macro/micro pics. Also has a really good case of the week, click this link to send email and subscribe
Pathopic photo database - German site with huge collection of macro/micro/pm/cytology photos
Pathpedia.com - This site looks to have very good potential and includes an "immunopedia" section
Emedicine - Perfect for finding the most recent info on even the most obscure diagnoses
Visual Histology - A nice american site with some good photomicrographs and video links
Images.MD - huge medical image archive, you need login via your Athens institutional password to access the high quality pics
Autopsy / Forensic
Forensic medicine notes - Professor Pounder from Dundee University
Forensic science notes - From enotes "World of Forensic Science"
Immuno and diagnostic
Vade Mecum - The latest version you can run straight from your web browser
Immunoquery - compare 3 suspected tumours, hit a button and you know what immuno to request!
Pathpedia - a comprehensive american site including a useful "immunopedia" section
Cytology
Cytology Stuff - Excellent site with huge gynae and non-gynae image resource and Case studies
Head and Neck
BDIAP seminar histories - a good series of head and neck pathology cases. The scanned slides are here
Neuro
Neuropathology web.org - an illustrated, interactive course, designed to teach neuropathology to medical students and residents.
Neuropathology Mini-Course for Residents - VCU department of pathology
Skin
Dermpath EQA - National Specialist Dermatopathology (NSD) EQA Scheme
Edinburgh Dermatopathology - has some virtual slides includes some cutaneous soft tissue neoplasms
Mihm's dermatopathology - in-depth discussions of important and challenging cases, including photographs and suggestions for further reading, and is updated the first week of each month.
Skin and soft tissue.com -the inflammatory skins are organised in reaction patterns like Weedon. Could do with a bit more description for each entity but not bad for beginners
Breast and Endocrine
Breast pathology on the web - a very good UK site run by Dr Jeremy Thomas, Consultant Pathologist at Edinburgh Breast unit
NHSBSP guidelines - for pathology reporting in breast disease
Atlas of breast histopathology - virtual microscopy atlas. Also see breastpath (more patient oriented)
Breast pathology pics - from webpathology.com
Thoracic
Sudden death autopsy Patrick Gallagher's lecture with great pics and explanation of degrees of certainty (Davies criteria)
Pathology of obstructive airways disease - excellent gross and micro pics of basic lung pathology
Mediastinal pathology - very good pics and descriptions of WHO thymoma classification among others (new section of webpathology.com)
Lymphoreticular
Lymph node pathology slides and quiz - University of Indiana site
Lymph nodes and spleen - some good photos from WebPathology.com
Upper GI and Pancreaticobiliary
Liver Histology - a nice introduction with animated pictures
Liver Pathology Seminars - A set of comprehensive liver pathology lectures (with audio!) by Prof Peter J Scheuer from UCL
Webpath at Utah - nice macro pictures and histology of liver diseases
BSG guidelines for diagnosing Barrett's - free pdf file
National GI EQA - includes digitised images
Lower GI
Phil Quirke Colorectal cancer - useful information about lower GI cutup including TME and sphincter grading
BSG guidelines for diagnosing Inflammatory Bowel Disease - free pdf file
Reporting lesions in the bowel cancer screening programme - posted on the Leeds virtual pathology website, clarifies new guidelines for dysplasia - posting on the NHS BCSP site
Soft Tissue and Bone
Bone tumours - tutorials for pathology residents
Skin and soft tissue.com - see above
Renal and Urology
Uropathology webcasts - hosted by ACP, live until July14th 2010
UK Renal EQA - includes some digitised images
Webpathology - archive of urological pathology with some excellent photos of those confusing Gleason grades!
Modern Pathology article - open access article on Gleason grading including pitfalls and prognostic factors
Obs and Gynae
Endometrium.org - Explains concept of EIN, and includes online lectures
Very good photo atlas of Borderline ovarian tumours from Chicago
Please contact me for further information; any suggestions would be most welcome
