I just wanted to extend my congratulations to Dr. Javier Arias-Stella, a distinguished Peruvian Pathologist who is working with Aperio to test our new SecondSlide digital slide sharing network. Dr. Arias-Stella has received the great honor of being featured on a Peruvian stamp.
As part of the SecondSlide pilot test project, Dr. Arias-Stella has been refering selected cases to his colleague Dr. Juan Rosai in Milan, Italy. The SecondSlide servers are located in Aperio's datacenter in San Diego, California. Sharing digital slides scanned in Lima with a pathologist in Milan via servers in San Diego has been a perfect test of SecondSlide's wide-area network capabilities.
Dr. Arias-Stella is a gynecological pathologist and there is a ovarian condition he's investigated called "the Arias-Stella phenomenon" [Update: see comments from Raul Leon below]. He is also a past foreign minister of Peru (1980-83), and was also public health minister (1963-65, 1966-68) and permanent representative to the United Nations (1983-85).
Pathology can take you far!
Again, congratulations to Dr. Arias-Stella, we are proud to be working with such distinguished colleagues in the development of our network.
Arias Stella phenomenon is not a ovarian condition, check it out with him
Posted by: Raul Leon | February 23, 2009 at 08:46 AM
Raul - sorry, my error entirely - can you please clarify what is the "Arias-Stella" phenomenon?
Posted by: Ole Eichhorn | February 23, 2009 at 10:03 AM
In a simple way; Arias Stella phenomenon is focal changes in endometrial or endocervical epithelium(not ovarian); that consist of intraluminal budding, nuclear enlargement, and hyperchromatism with cytoplastic swelling and vacuolation.
Posted by: Raul Leon | February 23, 2009 at 12:59 PM