Get Uk Queen Elizabeth Hospital Histopathology Request Form 2018-2025

The removal of cells or tissues for examination by a pathologist. The pathologist may study the tissue under a microscope or perform other tests on the cells or tissue.

(HIS-toh-puh-THAH-loh-jee) The study of diseased cells and tissues using a microscope.

Histopathology involves the study of sample tissues under the microscope. The sample tissue is extracted by cutting or by suction through a needle to look for indications of illnesses, damage, or other anomalies. It is also known as Histology.

Please ensure that request forms are fully, correctly and legibly labelled. We require full patient demographics, hospital registration number/NHS number, nature of specimen, clinical details, contact details of person in charge of the case, consultant/GP, Ward/location/GP surgery, date and time the specimen was taken.

Histopathology relies on samples of tissue obtained through procedures such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, and colposcopy, or by doing surgical procedures such as a breast biopsy. Diseases that are diagnosed by histopathology examination include: Ulcerative colitis. Crohn's disease.

Histopathologists examine biopsies (tissue or cells) removed from patients in the clinic or during an operation. The histopathologist examines tissue biopsies with the naked eye to look for any visible abnormalities and to select pieces to examine in more detail under the microscope.

If you want to get technical, a biopsy is a procedure for gathering the tissues, while histopathology is a study of the sample itself. Also, histopathology can involve looking at samples from entire organs, which technically isn't a biopsy.

Specifically, in clinical medicine, histopathology refers to the examination of a biopsy or surgical specimen by a pathologist, after the specimen has been processed and histological sections have been placed onto glass slides. In contrast, cytopathology examines free cells or tissue micro-fragments (as "cell blocks").