The sheer volume of pathologic entities that one can encounter in the head and neck makes this region one of the most daunting areas of diagnostic pathology. The challenge includes the need to integrate clinical, radiographic, immune-histo-chemical, and even molecular testing, to arrive at the appropriate diagnosis of head and neck tumours and tumour-like lesions.
These were the views expressed by Dr Richard Allibone, Consultant Pathologist at Nottingham University, UK, during a workshop held here at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Tuesday. The workshop was organized by UHS Pathology Department and it was attended by more than 80 pathologists from all over Pakistan. Dr Allibone, while discussing the scope and practice of Head and Neck as a specialty in UK, gave a comprehensive review of head and neck surgical pathology including the upper respiratory tract, thyroid, salivary gland, skin, inflammatory diseases, lymphomas, mesenchymal lesions, and oral cavity lesions.
The UHS vice-chancellor Major General Professor Muhammad Aslam said that rapid developments in new diagnostic criteria, molecular techniques, genetic analyses, diagnostic aids, radiographic imaging, and application of uniform terminology allowed practitioners to continue to maintain and expand their knowledge in the subspecialty of head and neck pathology. Workshop convenor and UHS Pathology Department's assistant professor Dr Nadia Naseem said that about 30 clinical cases from oral cavity, salivary glands, thyroid, lymph nodes, skin, nasopharynx, otolarynx were thoroughly discussed with their learning outcomes in the workshop.
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