title: Handling and reporting of biopsy and surgical specimens of testicular cancer.
abstract: This paper is the result of a meeting of the European Association of Pathologists, Uropathology Division in Florence 2003. The aims of this meeting were to establish: guidelines for specimen handling by urologists and minimum requirements for data accompanying testicular specimens submitted to pathologists; a consensus on techniques for processing specimens by pathologists; the essential information required from pathology reports; areas where our standard practice is traditional rather than evidence based and where further studies are required. The general aims of histopathology are to give or confirm a diagnosis; assess established prognostic markers; identify changes associated with treatment; provide information for audit (i.e. imaging, urology and pathology) and maintain a permanent record (slides/blocks).
authors.affiliation: University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK. aliwinstanley@doctors.org.uk
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Winstanley
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mikuz
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Debruyne
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Schulman
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Parkinson
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy / Q000592:standards; D005629:Frozen Sections; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards*; D009919:Orchiectomy; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000592:standards*; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery