[Telepathology in Uzbekistan].

Since 2003, a system of teleconsultations by the specialists of regional postmortem bureaus (RPB) in various areas of pathology has been stepwisely set up on the basis of the Republican Postmortem Center in Uzbekistan. Each of 13 RPBs has at its disposal microscopes with digital photo and television cameras, and a fast-acting internet to transmit microscopic images of difficult cancer biopsies and autopsies, including cases of maternal deaths. The local specialists transmit these data to the Republican Postmortem Center (Tashkent). Such verified biopsies were more than 8000 in late 2008. The introduction of new information technologies in Uzbekistan has allowed a number of essential, organizational diagnostic problems to be solved.