Telepathological evaluation of paediatric histological specimens in support of a hospital in Tanzania.

Background/objective: In a project of telepathology (TP) between German pathologists and a hospital in Tanzania, trained technical assistants have uploaded digital histological images onto the internet-based platform ipath. The diagnoses from 486 paediatric specimens were analysed.

Methods: The investigation included diagnoses, either primarily done via TP or secondarily after a further workup of the paraffin-embedded tissue, which was sent to Germany for cases which could not be solved via TP.

Interleukin 10 Restores Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Alterations in Synaptic Plasticity Probed by Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation.

Systemic inflammation is associated with alterations in complex brain functions such as learning and memory. However, diagnostic approaches to functionally assess and quantify inflammation-associated alterations in synaptic plasticity are not well-established. In previous work, we demonstrated that bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced systemic inflammation alters the ability of hippocampal neurons to express synaptic plasticity, i.

Prognostic Potential of the Expression of Podoplanin (D2-40) Within Cells of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Larynx and Hypopharynx.

Background: Podoplanin (D2-20) stains immunohistochemically lymphatic vessels, regular mesothelium and tumor cells of different tumors, e.g. malignant mesothelioma or seminoma.

Re-evaluation of challenging telepathological diagnoses in support of a hospital in Tanzania.

Since 2007, a hospital in Tanzania has been supported with histopathological reports via telepathology (TP) by German pathologists. For this, the Internet-based platform iPath is used. The aim of this study was to analyse the rate of discrepancies in defined diagnostic groups.

[Ten years of telepathology for a mission hospital in Tanzania].

Background: A collaboration between a hospital in Tanzania and a German institute for pathology was initiated in 2007 with the aim of establishing a working telepathological connection using the internet-based platform iPath to transmit static histological images.

Objectives: This study aimed to describe the diagnostic spectrum evaluated in the course of an aid project in a developing country in Africa.

Material And Methods: A total of 5230 diagnoses were analyzed, including cases that could only be definitively concluded after a second analysis of the paraffin-embedded material in Germany.