Clinical-pathological correlation: an unreplaceable symbiosis between the internist and the pathologist

Abstract

There are no doubts on the difficulties arising for arriving to the diagnosis of several patients, even with the best usage of the clinic and the technological resources. There it is a variable percent of diagnoses of hospital entities that, because of diverse complexities or factors association, sometimes require confirmation by autopsy. Multiple examples of diseases discovered or elucidated due to the autopsy could be cited, having a main basement in the clinical-pathological correlation.The indexes of discrepancy and coincidence of death causes between the clinical and morphological diagnoses are, in an indirect way, an indicator of the given medical care. The established research objective was describing the main historic-medical bonds of the clinical-pathological correlation and its current force.  Without doubts, there is a very necessary relation between the internist and the pathologist through the anatomoclinical method, and as a result of it, the main benefitted would be always the patients, their relatives and all the society.