Clinical Advice and Interpretation
Clinical advice and interpretation is available via the multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTs), and from the reporting pathologist.
If this pathologist is not available, other pathologists from the same specialty will provide this service.
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High Risk Specimens
To comply with national Health and Safety guidance and to alert laboratory staff that a specimen may require processing differently, some specimens must be labelled as ‘High Risk' (Danger of Infection).
Clinical judgement must be used to label specimens correctly, and the onus for this is on the requestor.
Specimens from the following require “Dang.
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How long does it take to become a cytopathologist?
Optional exams:
- examination in autopsy
- examination in gynaecological cytology (cervical cytopathology)
Histopathology training lasts
approximately 5 years.
About 2 years into training, trainees can choose to:post mortems or continue with training in post mortems and take the examination in autopsy .
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Requests For Additional Examinations
Requests for additional examinations must be made as soon as possible, following the laboratory's receipt of the specimen.
These requests must be made by telephone to the reporting pathologist.
Depending on the nature of the specimen, and the request made, be aware that it may not be possible to accommodate your request although every effort will b.
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Specimen Delivery
SJUH: Histology specimens It is preferable that all Histopathology specimens are delivered directly to specimen reception on level 5 of the Bexley Wing.
Specimen reception is located close to ward 98 (follow the corridor around the corner from the entrance to ward 98).
SJUH: Cytology specimens and muscle & nerve biopsies To be delivered to the path.
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Uncertainty of Results
The majority of diagnostic services provided by Cellular Pathology are not numeric and therefore reports cannot be traced back or related to national or international standards of measurement.
Uncertainty in reporting is minimised by:.
1) Pathologists / screeners / andrology BMS staff seeking a second opinion.
2) Discussion of results at multidiscip.
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What is Leeds teaching hospitals NHS Trust's histology laboratory?
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has a single- site histology laboratory with full diagnostic subspe- cialisation, with 40 pathologists reporting 80 000 cases per year (approximately 290 000 slides).
