Special Procedures in Pathology:Trends for 228 women with mesothelioma 1970-90
nTrends among 142 and 98 female cases diagnosed 1970-1984 and 1985-1991, respectively.
The improvement
in the use of special procedures (especially immunohistochemistry
(“Immunopath”), which was unheard of before 1985, has helped in making the
diagnosis more accurate, but the fall in the autopsy rate at the same time
has just about cancelled that out.