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Diagnostic Pathology BioMed Central Research Open Access How do surgical pathologists evaluate critical diagnoses (critical values)? Masoud Mireskandari Address: Pathology Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Email: Masoud Mireskandari - mireskandari@ Published: 12 July 2008 Received: 13 March 2008 Accepted: 12 July 2008 Diagnostic Pathology 2008, 3:30 doi:10.1186/1746-1596-3-30 This article is available from: /content/3/1/30 © 2008 Mireskandari; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: After introduction of the concept of critical value (CV) in laboratory medicine, some efforts were performed to define possible critical values in surgical pathology. Critical diagnosis (critical value) is a concept recently established in surgical pathology and is a challenging issue among pathologists and clinical specialists. The concept may be the subject of variation according to the geographical or work setting differences. The current study was performed to bring the contribution of the Iranian pathologists to the evolving concept of critical diagnoses (critical values) in surgical pathology.