The pathology laboratory is a specialized medical service that is responsible for receiving histological samples to be processed and analyzed by highly qualified professionals to issue an accurate diagnosis, in addition to providing a series of variables that are prognostic and predictive factors for the treatment of different diseases.
Its main objective is to be able to meet the requirements regarding the histopathological analysis of the various tissues and the expression in them of the various diseases that affect the human body. Analyzing samples of isolated tissues or cells (biopsies and cytologies), and generating reports of great clinical importance, which help other medical professionals to prescribe treatments, whether medical or surgical. Its activity is distributed in several functional areas, well defined but often interconnected: