To establish a case-based learning (CBL) database of Pathology for medical students in imaging specialty

which includes chief complaints and history of present illness

case characteristics

imaging findings

questions

surgical findings and discussion. Cases in the CBL database was obtained from newly resected specimen

which were combined with various imaging test results of patients before surgery. All the information of each case

including postoperative pathological diagnosis report

was collected to perfect the database. The database was used in the CBL teaching of pathology

which has stimulated students' learning initiative and enthusiasm

cultivated their logic thinking of imaging diagnosis and improved the teaching effect.