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Comment on: Multi-disciplinary team meetings with specialist radiologists may improve pre-operative clinico-radiological diagnostic accuracy in patients requiring orbital biopsy and offer reciprocal educational opportunities

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I read with interest the report of Hunt et al, reviewing the value of their regular orbital MDT meetings in the planning of operative patient care [1]. It is gratifying that they deem histopathology the diagnostic “gold standard.” However, I feel the need to raise a point which I’m sure the authors are aware of but did not specifically acknowledge.

A histological diagnosis is an opinion, and it may be wrong, pathologists being as human as everyone else. In the cases where the clinico-radiological and histological diagnoses did not overlap, the clinico-radiological suggestions were not necessarily incorrect.

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Thaung, C. Comment on: Multi-disciplinary team meetings with specialist radiologists may improve pre-operative clinico-radiological diagnostic accuracy in patients requiring orbital biopsy and offer reciprocal educational opportunities. Eye 37, 2837 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-023-02415-0

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