Tag Archives: Surgical pathology

May 2022—Infectious disease diagnosis sometimes requires a surgical pathologist, often in unexpected situations. In a CAP21 session, “Uncultured: Infectious Diseases in Surgical Pathology,” Sarah D. Hackman, MD, assistant professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, presented a sampling of such cases, two of which follow.

July 2021—CAP Publications released this month Grossing, Staging, and Reporting—An Integrated Manual of Modern Surgical Pathology, edited by Qihui “Jim” Zhai, MD, professor of laboratory medicine and pathology, consultant pathologist, and director of the FISH laboratory, Mayo Clinic Florida. The manual consists of 12 sections—from breast to thorax—and 54 chapters, organized by organ. CAP TODAY asked Dr. Zhai to tell us about the new book.

February 2021—New from CAP Publications is Surgical Pathology Review, by Daniel D. Mais, MD, associate professor of pathology, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Long School of Medicine, San Antonio. He and 14 other contributors wrote this book to ease the transition through board exams and into practice, Dr. Mais writes in the preface. Here is what he told CAP TODAY about the book.

August 2019—A practical guide that can help labs standardize the handling of a patient’s surgical specimen from harvest to diagnosis is available but too little known, and one of its authors aims to change its hidden treasure status. The 52-page “Practical Guide to Specimen Hand-ling in Surgical Pathology” is on the CAP/NSH Histotechnology Committee page on the CAP website. “Our main objective was to standardize specimen collection handling. Nothing had ever been done like it before,” says Elizabeth Sheppard, MBA, HT(ASCP), past president of the National Society for Histotechnology and head of global market access at Roche Tissue Diagnostics, Tucson, Ariz. She and M. Elizabeth H. Hammond, MD, first chair of the CAP Center Guideline Committee, submitted the topic for an evidence-based guideline; however, it was determined to be better suited as a practical guide for labs to be developed by the CAP/NSH Histotechnology Committee.