Pathology
Pathology helps guide diagnosis and treatment decisions across Yale Medicine. The department provides comprehensive anatomic and clinical pathology services, delivering diagnostic interpretation of tissue, blood, and body fluids, along with consultation that informs patient management.
Subspecialty pathologists are integrated with clinical teams, participate in multidisciplinary conferences, and support complex case review. Expertise includes breast, cytopathology, dermatopathology, endocrine, gastrointestinal and liver, gynecologic, head and neck, hematopathology, neuropathology, ophthalmic, pediatric, renal, soft tissue and bone, transplant, thoracic, and urologic pathology, as well as molecular and genomic pathology, and autopsy pathology.
Distinguishing factors
We offer diagnostic testing and subspecialty interpretation of the following:
- Accredited PD-L1 testing
- Autopsy pathology
- Cytopathology
- Intraoperative consultation: frozen section and tumor triage
- Molecular diagnostics and tumor genomic profiling
- Pediatric pathology
- Support laboratories and advanced techniques: histology, immunohistochemistry, translational pathology, electron microscopy, and quantitative immunofluorescence analysis of multiplexed tumor markers
- Surgical pathology with subspecialty coverage in the gastrointestinal tract and liver; prostate; bladder; kidney; gynecologic tract; endocrine system; head, neck, and oropharynx; bone and soft tissue; hematologic and lymphoid system; brain, muscle and eye; pulmonary system; and transplantation
- Coverage is available 24/7 for oncology, surgery, transplantation, and other high-acuity services, including intraoperative frozen sections and tumor triage to guide real-time decisions and appropriate ancillary testing.
