Surgical pathology report in the era of desktop publishing.
Since it is believed that "a picture is worth a thousand words," incorporation of computer-generated line art was used as a adjunct to gross description in surgical pathology reporting in selected cases. The lack of an integrated software program was overcome by using commercially available graphic and word processing software. A library of drawings was developed over the last few years. Most time-consuming is the development of templates and the graphic library. With some effort it is possible to integrate graphics of high quality into surgical pathology reports.
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St Frances Cabrini Hospital, Alexandria, La. 71301.
D000716:Anatomy, Artistic; D006801:Humans; D008488:Medical Illustration; D008838:Microcomputers; D010336:Pathology / Q000379:methods*; D011643:Publishing; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative