Clinical and pathologic characteristics of disseminated cutaneous coccidioidomycosis.

Background: Cutaneous lesions are a common manifestation of disseminated coccidioidomycosis, which has increasing prevalence in endemic regions. The clinical and histologic features may be more variable than is currently recognized.

Objective: To characterize the clinical and histologic findings from a large series of disseminated coccidioidomycosis cases in the southwestern United States.

Virtual slide telepathology for an academic teaching hospital surgical pathology quality assurance program.

Virtual slide telepathology is an important potential tool for providing re-review of surgical pathology cases as part of a quality assurance program. The University of Arizona pathology faculty has implemented a quality assurance program between 2 university hospitals located 6 miles apart. The flagship hospital, University Medical Center (UMC), in Tucson, AZ, handles approximately 20 000 surgical pathology specimens per year.