Sentence examples for primary pathologist from inspiring English sources

CM was the primary pathologist who reviewed histologic specimens, provided the grading scale and scores.

Pathological grading of needle biopsy specimens was performed according to Gleason grading system by local pathologists with no designated primary pathologist.

New tissue sections were prepared from the paraffin-embedded samples provided by the primary pathologist, and immunohistochemical study was systematically performed again by the expert reviewer (Lurkin et al, 2010).

Not surprisingly, concordance was significantly better in cases where the primary pathologist did not ask for a second opinion as compared to cases where an expert second opinion was requested spontaneously (66% vs. 44%) (p < 0.001).

The determination of completeness of excision of DCIS can be difficult for the primary reporting pathologist, but especially in a central review; for this reason, this feature has not been included in the analysis in many papers (de Mascarel et al, 2000; Ottensen et al, 2000).

His primary critic, the pathologist James Ewing, believed that the new technique of radiation was the only scientifically sound way to treat cancer.

By transforming the pathologists primary data into a scoring system, shown in table 2, patients were grouped according to a mesangial hypercellularity score of ≤0.5 (M0) or >0.5 (M1), without (E0) or with (E1) endocapillary hypercellularity, and without (S0) or with (S1) segmental glomerulosclerosis and tubular atrophy/interstitial fibrosis (TA/IF), 0 25% (T0), 26 50% (T1) and >50% (T2).

The comparison of the primary and reference pathologists enables us to calculate the sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values of the B-categorization in the context of the construct validity.

For example, the level of communication or interaction between the patient, physician, primary referring doctor and pathologist is higher in the private sector for histopathologists than in the public sector.

Optimal cancer patient care is multidisciplinary and at its bare minimum, calls for the timely and concerted opinion and action of the patient; the primary care physician; the pathologist; the medical oncologist; the radiation oncologist and the surgical oncologist [ 31].

All samples were identified by pathologists as primary NSCLC and were provided by the SurExam Clinical Testing Centre.