In this third installment, I’m going to talk about two of the more contentious topics that come up when we…
For this second installment, I’m going to discuss getting started. The first thing you need to decide is what kind…
One of the more bizarre features of being a forensic pathologist is that we have traditionally been civil servants. This…
Without seeing any cases in the past 15 years, over the past couple of months I’ve seen two cases of…
As I mentioned before, anisotropic illumination occurs when the bulb does not make the background uniformly white (or whatever color…
Image acquisition: The slide: Clean the slide. Really. When we look through the scope, we unconsciously edit out dust and…
The setup: The first thing is to acquire the best image you can before you do any postprocessing. It’s…
A couple of people have mentioned to me that they have trouble getting good looking photomicrographs. I thought I’d write…
A 72-year old man suffered a car crash and died. At autopsy, he was noted to have a 4 cm…
Here is a comparison in how small penetrating arteries in the cerebellum differ between normotensive and hypertensive decedents. First here…