Telepathology: diagnostic aid, second medical opinion and validation of the diagnostic efficiency.

Telepathology is a dynamic system based at the sharing of medical images coming from the microscopy that comprehends several applications. The first step of the study was evaluating the accuracy diagnostic; similar to test the proposal validity of multimedia cases transmission, as well as validating the advantages and disadvantages of the application. The experimentations involved the transmission of 619 cases, which had been realized between two laboratories of Pathological Anatomy in Santa Catarina, Brazil, intending to prove the validity of the telepathological study as a tool of second medical opinion.