Pathology services
The National Center of Pathology provides a broad spectrum of surgical pathology and cytopathology tests, including specialized services in nephropathology, hematopathology, dermatopathology, muscle pathology, and other areas.Some facts:
- The largest pathology service in Lithuania, over 30 years in pathology diagnostics
- 17 full-time pathologists, 5 geneticists and medical biologists, 40 technicians
- 10 years (2000-2010) experience of College of American Pathologists Accreditation
- Major clients include Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos and National Cancer Institute, accompanied by other 150 health care enterprises in Lithuania
- Yearly numbers of pathology diagnostics cases:
- Surgical Pathology (appr. 47 000 cases)
- Cytopathology, cervical and diagnostic (approx. 55 000 cases)
- Molecular Pathology (solid tumors appr. 1500 cases, HPV, STD appr. 29000 cases)
- Electron Microscopy (appr. 350 cases)
- Autopsies (appr. 50 cases)
- Laboratory techniques include:
- Histology, histochemistry
- Immunohistochemistry (DAKO and Ventana, > 90 000 tests/year, appr. 250 antibodies)
- Immunofluorescence on FFPE and frozen tissues
- FISH for hematology, soft tissue tumors, carcinomas
- Electron microscopy, mostly for nephropathology (Electron microscopy introduced since 2008 and performed in appr. ½ native Kd Bx)
- Tissue microarrays (TMA)
- Multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) (HPV, STD)
- Real-time PCR (KRAS, NRAS, BRAF, EGFR)
- Aperio digital microscopy platform
- TissueGnosticsTM system for bright field and fluorescence image acquisition and analysis.
- Biobank (project-driven)
- Pathology information system PathIS®, developed in cooperation with the Baltic Information Technology Institute (data since 1994)
- Research partner at the Santara Valley, providing Digital and Molecular Laboratory research services
Under - and post-graduate pathology training for Vilnius University.