Dr. Ziyan Tahir Salih MD
Pathologist | Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology
505 Parnassus Ave # M-1202 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Ziyan Salih is a pathologist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Salih is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Salih can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Salih may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Education and Training
Univ Of Sulaimania- Med Coll- Sulaimania- Iraq 1991
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Prevention of overwhelming postsplenectomy infection in thalassemia patients by partial rather than total splenectomy.
- Tenosynovial giant cell tumor presenting as a parotid gland mass: Expanding the differential diagnosis of giant cell-rich lesions in salivary glands.
- Ossifying fibromyxoid tumor: report of a case with cytomorphologic description.
- Hidradenocarcinoma presenting as soft tissue mass: Case report with cytomorphologic description, histologic correlation, and differential diagnosis.
- Dual malignancy in a thyroid; papillary thyroid carcinoma and small lymphocytic lymphoma; a report of a case with a cyto-histologic correlation.
- Pulmonary cryptococcosis diagnosed on a lung fine-needle aspiration.
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