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Optimization and securing of medical practices and proce-dures has always been very challenging in medicine. However, the real-life clinical settings continue to pose various hazards that may lead medical professionals to unintended mistakes. Pathologists feel particularly responsible and are very concerned about diagnostic discrepancies or even mistakes, since these depend on their interpretive skills and diagnostic expertise. However, a majority of mistakes in daily practice are related to laboratory procedural errors, involving transporta-tion of the specimens, labeling, contamination, cutting, typing, and various others [1]. In contrast to general belief, errors in diagnostic interpretation account for only 25 % of the overall failures in surgical pathology practice, with most of the remain-ing 75 % resulting from defective specimens, incorrect patient identification, mislabeling and/or inadequate reports [2]