Clinical Cases and Images in Pathology

Medical professionals upload their favourite cases so they can contribute to medical education globally. Here are a few sites and communities that present clinical cases.

Cases Journal - Pathology

• Description: Cases Journal publishes case reports from all areas of medicine. The journal will publish any report that is understandable, ethical, authentic, and includes all information essential to its interpretation.

Medting

• Description: "MEDTING is an interactive platform on web for the medical professionals over the world to share their knowledge. MEDTING is a best tool for a physician for sharing medical images, videos and discuss them with a large community of physicians. All for free, always."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

University of Oklahoma Pathology Case of the Month

• Description: "A case study based, online educational program in anatomic pathology, surgical pathology, and neuropathology. This website is designed for pathologists and pathology students, residents, and fellows. This website is intended for educational purposes only, not for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes."

University of Pittsburgh Department of Pathology Online Case Studies

• Description: "The Department of Pathology at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has formatted many pathology cases for online viewing. The case database is growing constantly, with several members of the department and residents contributing cases on a regular basis. These cases fall into several categories and reflect the broad scope of our department's clinical and diagnostic expertise."

University of Virginia Pathology Case Studies

• Description: "The University of Virginia Health System is a nationally renowned academic medical center committed to providing outstanding patient care, educating tomorrow's health care leaders, and discovering new and better ways to treat diseases."

Pathology for Students

• Description: This site is a one stop resource for pathology students on the internet.
• Quality: "The inspiration for this site comes from the lack of really good content on the internet for the study of pathology or those that wish to undertake a career in pathology."

Epathologies.com

• Description: This is an interesting website run by Dr. Gerard Abadjian, Associate Professor of Pathology at St. Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon. Several parts of the site are bilingual or limited only to French.
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Oral Pathology Image Database

• Description: "The goal of this atlas is to show multiple examples of important lesions of the oral cavity. One should never diagnose a lesion simply by visually inspecting it. The patient history and physical examination are critically important."

Pathologypics.com

• Description: "Beyond viewing images, visitors to the site can contribute images and questions about particular cases. According to the site, the intended use is as a "teaching tool for medical student and residents, providing a user driven web resource where you can post, browse and download images of interesting histology."

Springer Images

• Description: "SpringerImages is a growing collection of scientific images that spans the scientific, technical and medical fields, including high-quality clinical images from images. The SpringerImages interface enables users to search faster, more broadly and more accurately, through captions, keywords, context and more, even jumping from the image to the source article. Users can create personalized image “sets,” and can easily export images for use in their own presentations or lectures."

The Internet Pathology Laboratory for Medical Education

• Description: "The WebPath® computer-aided instructional resource at this website contains over 2000 images with text that illustrate gross and microscopic pathologic findings along with radiologic imaging associated with human disease conditions. For self-assessment and study there are over 2000 examination items. There are more than 20 tutorials in specific subject areas."

WebPathology

• Description: "A collection of high-quality images featuring pathology of benign and malignant neoplasms."

"Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to host images that they embed in blogs and social media."

Dermatopathology

• Description: "This Group is a repository of images relating to diagnostic pathology of the skin. Appropriate subjects include histologic preparations, gross specimens, and clinical images of anonymized patients."

Pathologists

• Description: "Pathology folks can submit interesting gross and histology photos."

Pathology and Lab Medicine

• Description: "This public group is for images relating to the practice of diagnostic pathology and clinical laboratory medicine."

Pathology slides

• Description: "There is beauty in pathology slides, there are like mini bits of abstract art."