Abstract
Normal and pathologically changed human organs, tissues and cells are very complicated structures. In diagnostic pathology one tends to look at special structural features, overlooking other details regarded as unimportant. In fact, the pathologist is continuously reducing the images under observation into a new simplified reality, based on a theoretical model (or template, see secton 2.3). The latter is composed of features in a structural interrelation, thought to be specific for the pathological diagnosis considered.
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Oort, J., Baak, J.P.A. (1983). Structural Morphology. In: A Manual of Morphometry in Diagnostic Pathology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74823-3_5
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