Breast pathology · informal second reads
A second read on difficult breast cases.
Curbside connects practicing pathologists with a subspecialty breast pathologist for informal, educational second opinions. Send de-identified photomicrographs and your question; receive a written reply within 24 hours.
An informal, educational consult between colleagues — not a formal diagnosis, and never a substitute for your own sign-out.
How it works
Send your case
Upload de-identified photomicrographs and describe the problem: your differential, your question, and any context that matters.
De-identification is built in
Images are stripped of metadata and renamed in your browser before upload. You confirm no patient identifiers are visible.
Receive a written opinion
A written informal read — the favored diagnosis, the features behind it, and suggested next steps — within 24 hours.
Who reads your cases
Every case is read by Dr. Fouad Boulos, a subspecialty-trained academic breast pathologist. Each opinion is written by him personally.
Curbside is an independent service. Opinions are informal and educational; when a case warrants a formal consultation with an institutional report, that remains the right channel, and an informal read may tell you exactly that.
Compared with posting in an online group
Many pathologists share difficult cases in online groups, and often get useful replies. Curbside offers a different arrangement for the cases where that isn't enough.
Private
Cases stay between you and the consultant. Nothing appears in a public feed.
Predictable
A written reply within 24 hours, on every case.
Consistent
The same breast pathologist reads every case, so you know whose judgment you are getting.
De-identified
Metadata stripping and an identifier checklist are part of every upload.
Why this exists
Subspecialty opinion is unevenly distributed. In much of the world, a pathologist facing a difficult breast case has no consultation service within reach. Curbside is meant to narrow that gap: a careful, timely second read available to any pathologist, wherever they practice.