SurgPath4U

 

About this Site:

This site was created for health care practitioners to learn about pathology, and specifically surgical pathology. It initially started as an idea to reposit interesting or exemplary cases for internal teaching. We thought, "Why not make it available to others?" So we have. We didn't design this site as an encyclopedic atlas, but rather as a clean and simple way to view cases and gain or cement knowledge. We hope that you enjoy using the site and find the information helpful.
 

Terms of Use:

Understandable Text:
Please browse the site and enjoy it. We hope you come away with some new knowledge. That being said, there are some ground rules. Except where noted in submitted cases, the copyright to the images is owned by surgpath4u.com. What does this mean? Will we be mad if you find a nice image of a diagnosis and use it in a discussion or presentation to a small group for educational purposes? Nope, that's FAIR USE . Be sure and properly reference it to surgpath4u.com. Will we be mad if that presentation with an image from this site shows up on the web, or you use an image from the site at a regional or national meeting in a presentation? Yeah, probably. Don't do that for a number of reasons including that it's unethical and it's stealing. Will we be mad if an image shows up in your publication? Yep. Irate. So please don't do that. Also, most of the text here is really just descriptive of the images, but in the cases of the other sections (e.g. prognosis, treatment) these are mostly accepted and acknowledged medical information and freely available in the public domain. We try to reference anything that's not considered well known and accepted information, and in those cases reference the primary work if you'd like. Just don't get lazy and copy/paste text from the site into your work though, that's going too far.

If you really want to use an image from here for purposes other than small group non-published discussions/presentations, just ask. There's no guarantee, but if we give you permission, we can probably get you a better quality image than is on the site anyway. Who knows, it could be the basis for some sort of collaboration.

Oh yeah, one other thing. The user interface: we specifically designed this site with ease of navigation in mind. The site design mostly came from meetings and hallway conversations like: "Wouldn't it be great if you could click on a link and it would show you all the cases . . ." etc. etc. Coding the site was actually a lot of fun and we used it as an opportunity to learn about relational databases, php, javascript, html, and on and on. It would be pretty tough to cut and paste the code and make anything work, as there's a lot of server side scripting being done. But with that in mind, we got a lot of ideas and code examples from the web on how to do stuff. If this site's code helps you to do the same, great. What you shouldn't do is design your site with the identical or suspiciously similar user interface. Either submit cases here (we'd love to expand what we offer and you can retain copyright to your images), let us know how we could improve the site, or design your own site with a different and better interface. Bottom line, don't rip off the interface and host your own nearly identical website.

Legalese:
All material on webpages under the domain surgpath4u.com, including the user interface design, is, unless otherwise stated, the property of the website owners. These materials are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws in the United States of America and abroad. Information received through this website may be displayed, reformatted, and printed for your personal, noncommercial use only. You may not reproduce or retransmit the materials, in whole or in part, in any manner, without the prior written consent of surgpath4u.com with the following exception only:

You may make single copies of selected portions or materials available through this website, solely for small group educational, non-published, non-formal-presented use, and only then if you reference them to this site. You may not distribute such copies to others, whether or not in electronic form, whether or not for a charge or other consideration, without prior written consent of surgpath4u.com.


Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials available through this website should be emailed to our communications staff at here.
 

Disclaimer:

It is not the intention of this site to provide specific medical advice on specific cases. Our aim is to provide information to better understand the diagnosis of pathologic conditions. Not that you would, but don't use the information on the site as a basis for patient treatment. Use the information as a basis for a better understanding of pathologic diagnosis. If you're a patient who has stumbled on this site, we don't think this information will be all that useful to you. Don't even consider making any health care decisions based on what you read here. Talk to your doctor and get advice on your specific case; everyone and every case is a different.

We have tried to get all of the information on the site as accurate as possible. Do we guarantee it? Nope. You may disagree with what we have posted. In this case either let us know and if something is clearly incorrect, we'll fix it and thank you. In the case of controversial information, we may need to do a better job of documentation or presenting other view points. Are we infallible? We all like to think so, but unfortunately we're not. So, like everything in life, rely on your own expertise, experience, and research whenever possible and use this site as a springboard for further inquiry and learning.

So in legalese: regarding this site and the information herein, we do not make any warranty, express or implied, including the warranties of fitness for a particular purpose or standard; nor do we assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of information disclosed on this site.

Privacy: Like most other sites, we use tracking services, in our case Google Analytics, to track how many visitors to our site. We collect no personal information about our users. What we get from Google Analytics is:

  • The Internet domain from which you access our Web site;
  • The type of browser you use to access this site;
  • The date and time you visit the site;
  • The pages that you view on the site; and
  • The referring site you came from if you visited from a link elsewhere.
Not that this information is useful to anyone, but we don’t share it.

Finally, this site is composed of cases seen by the faculty within the Department of Pathology at the University of New Mexico. This site, however, is in no way affiliated with the University of New Mexico. Opinions expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of the University of New Mexico, its employees, or affiliates. The same conditions apply to individuals sharing cases from other institutions.
 

Faculty:

Dr. Lisa Cerilli, MD is the primary source for the images and cases on this site. She oversees the images and specific information composing the depicted cases.

Main Contributors:
Dr. Cecilia Wu, MD is the primary contributor to the background information in many of the cases.

Dr. Garth Olson, MD is the primary coder for this site.

Other physicians have contributed cases and information to specific cases for this site as well. Each specific case is reviewed by a board certified pathologist and every effort is made to depict accurate information.

 

Feedback or Submissions:
If you have any questions or concerns about this site, please feel free to contact us. As we mentioned above, if you find information that you think is in error, let us know please. If you have suggestions for improvement, statements of praise or angry rants, we take those too.

Also, if you have a good case that you think would be helpful to others, drop us a line and we can give you information on how to upload it to the site, it’s pretty painless and it will take you about 20 minutes. We don’t need you to send us slides etc., it’s all electronic from your desktop. You can retain all rights to your images and just give us permission to display them on the site.

We can be reached at webmaster@surgpath4u.com

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