[Using telepathology for remote pathoanatomical diagnostics]

The experience accumulated in 2000-2002 in the department of pathology of the central clinical hospital of President Administration Medical Centre on the use of telepathology for distant anatomopathological diagnosis is reviewed. Multilevel consulting-diagnostic telepathological network having local (intrahospital and city), federal and international levels was created in the scope of the departmental telemedical project. The results of the use of removed telediagnosis for urgent histological studies on frozen sections indicate the absence of differences between this method and conventional optical diagnosis.