Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Clinical description of skin lesions in pathology requisition forms completed by plastic surgeons is lacking: a retrospective study of 499 lesions

  • Short Communication
  • Published:
European Journal of Plastic Surgery Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Sellheyer K, Bergfeld WF (2005) A retrospective biopsy study of the clinical diagnostic accuracy of common skin diseases by different specialties compared with dermatology. J Am Acad Dermatol 52:823–830

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  2. Sellheyer K, Bergfeld WF (2005) “Lesion,”“Rule out…,” and other vagaries of filling out pathology requisition forms. J Am Acad Dermatol 52:914–915

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Boyd AS, Neldner K (1997) How to submit specimen for cutaneous pathology analysis. Arch Fam Med 6:54

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. O'Connor KM, Chien AJ (2008) Management of melanocytic lesions in the primary care setting. Mayo Clin Proc 83:208–213

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  5. Friedman RJ, Rigel DS, Kopf AW (1985) Early detection of malignant melanoma: the role of physician examination and self-examination of the skin. CA Cancer J Clin 35:130–151

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  6. Abbasi NR, Shaw HM, Rigel DS, Friedman RJ, McCarthy WH, Osman I, Kopf AW, Polsky D (2004) Early diagnosis of cutaneous melanoma: revisiting the ABCD criteria. JAMA 292:2771–2776

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Hawrot A, Alam M, Ratner D, Salasche S (2003) Squamous cell carcinoma. Curr Prob Dermatol 15:85–134

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Rubin AI, Chen EH, Ratner D (2005) Basal cell carcinoma. N Engl J Med 353:2262–2269

    Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  9. Waller JM, Zedek DC (2010) How informative are dermatopathology requisition forms completed by dermatologists? A review of the clinical information provided for 100 consecutive melanocytic lesions. J Am Acad Dermatol 62:257–261

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Author notes

  1. Yarden Zohar and Rony Shreberk-Hassidim have contributed equally for this research.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Military Medicine Track IDF Medical Corps, Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

    Yarden Zohar

  2. Department of Dermatology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

    Rony Shreberk-Hassidim

  3. Department of Plastic Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

    Jhonatan Elia, Alexander Margolis & Ayal Hassidim

  4. Department of Pathology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

    Anna Elia & Alexander Maly

Authors
  1. Yarden Zohar
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Rony Shreberk-Hassidim
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Jhonatan Elia
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Anna Elia
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Alexander Maly
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. Alexander Margolis
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. Ayal Hassidim
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ayal Hassidim.

Ethics declarations

Funding

No funding was secured for this study.

Conflict of Interest

Yarden Zohar, Rony Shreberk-Hassidim, Jhonatan Elia, Anna Elia, Alexander Maly, Alexander Margolis and Ayal Hassidim declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Research involving human participants and/or animals

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Hadassah—Hebrew University Medical Center institutional review board and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any study with animals performed by any of the authors.

Informed consent

For this type of study, formal consent is not required.

Additional information

This research was part of Miss Zohar’s MD thesis.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Zohar, Y., Shreberk-Hassidim, R., Elia, J. et al. Clinical description of skin lesions in pathology requisition forms completed by plastic surgeons is lacking: a retrospective study of 499 lesions. Eur J Plast Surg 41, 249–252 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-017-1353-4

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00238-017-1353-4

Keywords

Search

Navigation