APIII - Advancing Practice, Instruction & Innovation Through Informatics

Marriott City Center, Pittsburgh, PA | September 20 - 23, 2009

Presented at the 1999 APIII Conference                        Return to 1999 Abstract Index

A CLINICOPATHOLOGIC E-POSTER ABOUT A CASE OF MINOCYCLINE INDUCED SWEET'S SYNDROME

Association for the Development of DermatoPathology
Toulouse, FRANCE
Dr J.M. Andre-Alibert, MD

The clinico-pathologic multimedia poster presented here will maybe seem very common. Its originality lies in the way it was prepared by a dermatologist and a pathologist who run their independent practices in two different towns in the south of France.

A - Here are 3 main aspects of the laboratory’s organisation:

  1. The basic component is a network of multimedia computers. They are located in the physician’s office, the secretary’s office and the technical room.
  2. Each person is involved in the process of imaging and has an adapted working station. For the physician, the microscope, the video camera and the computer constitute an integrated tool. The technician takes gross pictures and the secretary sets up documents, prints the pictures or sends them by e-mail.
  3. Each task is made easier by the software program. The pictures are given the same registration number as the corresponding exam. They are enclosed in the patient’s file along with the report. The program allows a retrieval and a preview of the pictures in different ways, for instance, using the pathology code system.


B - Here are 3 elements brought about by informatics and imaging, but first of all one should know that the English translation appeared as important as the use of the Internet for a better information exchange.

  1. The clinicopathologic correlation is sustained by a written report with pictures, which can be sent to the dermatologist. These pictures remain available for further use in the file collection of the lab.
  2. This poster was presented by the dermatologist in 1998 at the Congress of the French Federation of Continuing Medical Education in Dermatology, and published in Les Nouvelles Dermatologiques. Then a multimedia and interdisciplinary version was made available to pathologists in a Web page.
  3. This poster has been integrated in the CADE network (Clinicopathologic Atlas of Dermatology) of the ADDP (Association for the Development of DermatoPathology). It will be available possibly with some notes on the case follow-up and will also contribute to a dynamic archive collection system.
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