Pathology and Probabilities
- 15 October 1981
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 305 (16) , 917-923
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198110153051604
Abstract
Pathologists typically analyze biopsy specimens and report their opinions in a qualitative fashion. Clinical information, often fragmentary in character, is implicitly linked with the histologic findings, and interpretations are couched in ambiguous language: "consistent with," "highly suggestive of," "may represent," or "cannot exclude." Only pathognomonic or normal findings are reported in an unequivocal fashion.Keywords
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