O relato de caso como situação gnosiológica: reflexões sobre a prática diagnóstica em patologia a partir de um caso de abetalipoproteinemia

Abstract

RESUMONeste ensaio, aproveita-se um caso raro de

Pachydermia verrucosa…of the (very) bad kind!

“…More than learning about the Kaiser's disease itself, the study of a pathology case may serve to disclose the intimate nature of a pathology diagnostic task [4]. In a given case, the pathologist departs from a fragment of the reality and, through an observational act, makes an observational statement; in the second step, an interpretational statement is made through an interpretational act [5].…”