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What the Surgeon Can Expect from the Pathologist and Vice Versa

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Patients requiring aortic surgery usually represent a group of individuals with complex pathologies often necessitating challenging interventions and care in a tertiary medical center. This calls for both surgeons and pathologists alike to work together as a team of highly specialized experts. It is the surgeon’s job to ensure that all aortic specimens are adequately fixed and sent for routine histopathological work up in a timely manner and with appropriate clinical information. It is the pathologist’s job to process and store the samples according to (inter-)national guidelines and provide a standardized report with as concise a diagnosis as possible. Turnaround times and cost-effectiveness should also be taken into the equation to enable rapid subsequent treatment beyond surgery, where needed, and to lower the threshold for sample processing.

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  1. Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Yara Banz & Vera Genitsch

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    John R. Pepper

  3. Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

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Banz, Y., Genitsch, V. (2019). What the Surgeon Can Expect from the Pathologist and Vice Versa. In: Stanger, O., Pepper, J., Svensson, L. (eds) Surgical Management of Aortic Pathology. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-4874-7_18

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