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Pathology Reports

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Does anyone know of a wesite/dictionary that explains the wording in pathology reports?

for example..

melanocytic nevus
architectural disorder and cytologic atypia

I think I need a medical degree to read my reports.
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Call and make a phone appointment with the pathologist to talk it through. Sometimes they are better at explaining than the oncologists. Your oncologist SHOULD go through it line by line with you if you ask and set up an appt to do just that.

Google has an excellent search for definitions and explanations as well by using the "Define" search. To do this, simply go to www.google.com and then in the regular search box type:

define: atypia

and you'll get a lot of definitions.

Here are links to give you an example. If you need more help, please ask!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=hll&q=define%3A+melanocytic&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+atypia&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
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