Digital pathology and COVID-19 and future crises: pathologists can safely diagnose cases from home using a consumer monitor and a mini PC
Digital pathology and COVID-19 and future crises: pathologists can safely diagnose cases from home using a consumer monitor and a mini PC
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DOI：
10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206943
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发表时间：
2020-11-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Montironi, Rodolfo
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作者：
Cimadamore, Alessia;Lopez-Beltran, Antonio;Montironi, Rodolfo
COVID-19疫情对常规病理服务产生深远影响。1数字病理学可以发挥作用，“在当前和未来的环境中保障临床服务和基于病理学的研究”。1这种基于数字的诊断方法代表了一种评价福尔马林固定石蜡包埋组织（FFPE）手术病理切片的新方法。它使病理学家摆脱了在他/她的办公室使用光学显微镜的限制。与此同时，它可以对病理学家之间的“社会互动”产生影响，包括他们与临床医生甚至患者的互动。本集团最近的一篇文章简要论述了在COVID-19疫情高峰期这种关系的变化。[2]目的是试图预见在大流行期间获得的经验如何影响数字和后数字时代的组织病理学方法。我们的实验室以及世界各地的许多其他实验室，尽管还没有准备好用扫描仪取代光学显微镜来创建数字病理学图像，但已经有了数字相机和扫描仪，用于“共享图像和咨询，教学以及与临床医生和患者沟通”。2
COVID-19 pandemic has a profound impact on routine pathology services. 1 Digital pathology can play a role ‘to safeguarding clinical services and pathology-based research in the current climate and in the future’. 1 This digital-based approach to diagnosis represents a new way in the evaluation of surgical pathology slides from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue (FFPE). It makes the pathologist free from the constraints of using an optical microscope in his/her office. At the same time, it can have an effect on ‘social interaction’among pathologists, including their interplay with clinicians and even patients. A recent contribution from our group briefly dealt with the changing aspects of such a relationship at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. 2 The aim was to try to foresee how the kind of experience acquired during the pandemic could have influenced the approach to histopathology in the digital and postdigital eras. Our laboratories as well as many others worldwide, even though not yet ready for substituting and replacing the optical microscope with a scanner for digital pathology image creation, already have digital cameras and scanners for ‘sharing images and consulting, teaching and communicating with clinicians and patients’. 2