Cardiovascular pathology: maturation of a discipline and the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology

Received 5 February 2010; accepted 7 February 2010. published online 26 April 2010.

Abstract

This communication briefly summarizes the maturation of Cardiovascular Pathology, both as a subspecialty of Pathology and as an academic discipline, and the founding and contributions of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology.

Keywords: Cardiovascular pathology, Society for cardiovascular pathology, Academic discipline of cardiovascular pathology, History of cardiovascular pathology

Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Tel.: +1 617 732 5709; fax: +1 617 232 9820.

No funding was obtained for the work in this manuscript.

PII: S1054-8807(10)00043-8

doi:10.1016/j.carpath.2010.02.007

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