What is surgical pathology?

Pathology is a medical industry that focuses on the nature, cause and effect of disease or injury. There are many different branches of pathology, including surgical pathology. Surgical pathology focuses on the analysis of tissues or even organs that are removed from living patients during surgery. The task of a surgical pathologist is to use this sample to diagnose a disease or problem and formulate a treatment plan.

Surgical pathologists, sometimes referred to as surgical diagnostics, may be municipalities or can specialize in a specific area of ​​medicine. For example, oncological surgical pathologist will largely focus on the analysis of cancer and malignant tumors, cysts or white blood cells. There is also forensic pathologist , who participates in autopsy to reveal the cause of man's death. Usually, however, primary work in surgical pathology occurs in the laboratory.

Diagnostic techniques of surgical pathology include a wide range of techniques. The most basic technique is on the macroscopic level - just browsing the sample with the bare eye can provide the pathologist with sufficient information to make a diagnosis. Most often, however, the pathologist will also require some microscopic help to make sufficient diagnosis and prognosis. The microscope is therefore one of the primary tools used by the pathologist. However, the surgical pathologist does not only rely on the eye and microscope. Molecular diagnosis such as DNA analysis and other laboratory tests are sometimes used to make a diagnosis.

Surgical pathologist usually does not perform surgery. This work is in the interest of a surgeon. However, surgicalpathologist Al analyzes a sample removed during surgery. This sample can be a biopsy that is a sample of tissue from an infected area or excision of the whole patient or even the whole organ. Surgical pathology also includes anaLýsa of specimens provided uninterrupted. For example, a dermatologist can remove a mole for an analysis of a surgical pathologist.

2 In the United States, this Council would be an American pathological council, but all countries have their own certification process and requirements.