Multimedia fetal pathology
Tennstedt, C.
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Pathologie 85: 167-174
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0070-4113 PMID: 11894394 Document Number: 537602
Due to the enormous technical developments in recent years in the area of prenatal ultrasound more malformations are detected in greater detail and at an earlier point in time during pregnancy than in the past. As a result, fetuses of increasingly smaller size and with complex diagnoses are presented for autopsy. At the same time, the genetic causes of ever more diseases, malformations and syndromes are being discovered, so that DNA diagnostics, chromosome analysis and, among others, molecular-genetic and biochemical investigations have come increasingly to complement clinical-genetic diagnostics. The increasing clinical requirements also raise the requirements for advanced training in the area of fetal pathology. Multimedia techniques can help satisfy these requirements. Within the framework of routine diagnostics representative findings in exemplary cases can be worked out multimedially. These cases could be presented by CD or shown on the World Wide Web. Tele-pathology can come to play an essential role in advanced training: seminars can be conducted directly or virtually using preserved specimens or direct expert consultations can be conducted for the increasingly complex routine cases. The technical development mentioned above makes it clear that advanced training has to be carried out within a clinical context. Commonly accessible interdisciplinary databases play a central role here.