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. 2019 Sep 13:7:264.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00264. eCollection 2019.

Telepathology in Low Resource African Settings

Nnamdi Orah  1 , Olorunda Rotimi  2   3
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Telepathology in Low Resource African Settings

Nnamdi Orah et al. Front Public Health. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Africa; digital slides; external quality; low resource; teaching; telepathology.

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Figure 1
Digital slide scanner.
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Figure 2
Telepathology in session. (A) A cross section of pathology residents in a session at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (Lagos, Nigeria). (B) A close-up view of the screen in (A). (C) Participants attending the web-based learning sessions at the revision course (Lagos, Nigeria). (D) A close-up view of the screen in (B).
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