What's in a Name? Replacing Pejorative Terminology in Anatomic Pathology.

IF 0.9 4区医学 Q4 PATHOLOGY

International Journal of Surgical Pathology Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-21 DOI:10.1177/10668969241236700

Michael Magguilli, Cody Thomas, Evan Fowle

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Abstract

Recent changes to medical terminology and nomenclature have made strides to improve ethical integrity in healthcare. Removing tarnished eponymous namesakes and depreciative descriptions from the medical lexicon is a challenging, but righteous undertaking. In this article, the authors propose replacing the pejorative histologic description of "Indian file" with "Tusken Raider file."

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名字里有什么？取代解剖病理学中的贬义术语。

近来，医学术语和命名法的变化为提高医疗保健领域的道德诚信迈出了一大步。从医学词典中删除被玷污的同名术语和贬义描述是一项具有挑战性但却正义的事业。在本文中，作者建议用 "塔斯肯突袭者锉刀 "取代 "印第安人锉刀 "这一贬义的组织学描述。

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International Journal of Surgical Pathology 医学-病理学

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

0.00%

发文量

198

审稿时长

1 months

期刊介绍： International Journal of Surgical Pathology (IJSP) is a peer-reviewed journal published eight times a year, which offers original research and observations covering all major organ systems, timely reviews of new techniques and procedures, discussions of controversies in surgical pathology, case reports, and images in pathology. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).