Lab Medicine Rounds

Time Stamps00:00 Podcast Intro00:37 Introduction of Joaquin Garcia, Vice Chair of Laboratories in the Division of Anatomic Pathology and Medical Director of the Histology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic.00:57 Can you give us a little background as to how you came in to this world of anatomic pathology and also where did this interest of salivary gland tumors come from?02:09 What are the things that come to your attention when people are asking about salivary gland tumors?03:13 When you talk about getting a small biopsy, are we talking about getting a punch biopsy for skin or are we talking about a fine needle aspirate where your just getting cytology? 04:11 Can you get in to a little bit on where this challenge comes from, whether something is benign, malignant, kind of predicting that behavior?05:46 How do you train up pathologists to make these calls and recognize malignant from benign?07:04 Can you elaborate on some of the additional testing you’re talking about (immunohistochemical staining and liquid kind of s