I apologize; I should have stated my question differently. Our Children's Hospital wants to stop sending tonsils to Pathology unless the surgeon requests pathological examination. An article published in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (Nelson et al.) concluded that pathologic examination of tonsils is not a cost-effective use of limited health care resources. "Zero cases of unsuspected pathology were identified on planned gross specimen evaluation (n=4186) and positive pathologic findings on microscopic analysis (n=1066) were only identified in post-transplant patients."
Have any of you exempted tonsils from submission to Pathology? If not, maybe we should. Richard Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD Director, Histology & Immunopathology Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street Hartford, CT 06102 (860) 545-1596 Office (860) 545-2204 Fax _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
