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Lecture presented at the XXth Congress of the European Society of Pathology held in Paris on September 4, 2005.

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Bussolati, G. Dissecting the pathologist’s brain: mental processes that lead to pathological diagnoses. Virchows Arch 448, 739–743 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-006-0164-y

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