[Request of second opinion for difficult diagnosis in surgical pathology. Assessment of a one year activity in a general hospital].

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate our practices concerning difficult lesions sent for second opinion to an expert.

Material And Methods: We analyzed retrospectively all the requests for second opinion carried out over one year in our laboratory. The following data were indexed: organ, pathology (tumoral or not), type of sampling, the time, additional techniques carried out by the expert and comparison of the initial diagnosis with that of the expert.