© 2000 Journal of Clinical Pathology
Millennial review
Is H&E morphology coming to an end?
1 Department of Pathological Sciences, Stopford Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
Correspondence to:
Professor Fox.
Introduction
The title and subject of this contribution were inflicted upon me by the editors of this Journal and were not of my own choosing. The question posed to me by the title had never entered my mind, and my instinctive and intuitive response to it was "Of course H&E morphology is not coming to an end." However, every now and again one is forced to provide logical reasons for an intuitive belief and it is a useful exercise to consider both the present and future status of simple morphological diagnosis in histopathological practice.
When considering the future it is, however, necessary to point out that only those who are either extremely foolish or recklessly brave make short term predictions for the correctness of such prophecies will be proved or disproved within a brief time span, usually while the forecaster is still alive and hence still available to be ridiculed. Very
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