Medicolegal aspects of error in pathology

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 617-619

  Troxel, David B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Doctors Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; AUTOPSY; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALPRACTICE; MELANOMA; OVARY TUMOR; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PATHOLOGY; SPINDLE CELL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CALIFORNIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; MALPRACTICE; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL;

EID: 33646684698     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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