title: Challenges in Consolidated Reporting of Hematopoietic Neoplasms.
abstract: This article focuses on the challenges of generating comprehensive diagnostic reports in hematopathology. In particular, two main challenges that diagnosticians face are (1) interpreting and understanding the rapid advances in molecular and genetic pathology, which have gained increasing importance in classifications of hematopoietic neoplasms, and (2) managing the logistics of reporting ancillary studies and incorporating them effectively into a final synthesized report. This article summarizes many important genetic findings in hematopoietic neoplasms, which are required for accurate diagnoses, and discusses practical issues to generating accurate and complete hematopathology reports.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room L235, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Electronic address: rohgami@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Robert S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Ohgami
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Stanford University Medical Center, 300 Pasteur Drive, Room L235, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Arber
keywords: Bone marrow; Comprehensive pathology reports; Consolidated pathology reports; Hematopathology; Integrated pathology reports; Molecular pathology; Synthesized reports