The pathological anatomy is that branch of medicine that studies the alterations induced by a disease in an organ or in tissue, taken previously during a biopsy or a surgical intervention.
Therefore, the pathologist is a doctor who specializes in analyzing the changes that a pathology causes at the level of organs and tissues.
MODERN ANATOMOPATOLOGY HAS AN ITALIAN PATERNITY
Perhaps few people know that modern pathological anatomy has an all-Italian paternity. In fact, according to medical historians, the founder was a certain Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771), an anatomist doctor from Forlì.
Professor at the University of Padua for several years, Morgagni was the first great supporter of the importance of observing organs and tissues affected by a disease.
SUBSECECIALIZATIONS OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY
Current anatomopathologists have the opportunity to further specialize in one area of their discipline and become experts in:
- Surgical pathology . It deals with the macroscopic and microscopic analysis of diseased organs or tissues taken during surgery
- Cytopathology . It is the study of the morphology of cells coming from diseased organs and tissues
- Molecular pathology . It is the study, using molecular biology methods, of molecules present in diseased organs and tissues.
- Forensic pathology . It is the study of the causes of death when this has occurred without a specific reason or for unnatural reasons (for example in the case of murder)
- Oral and maxillofacial pathology
- Neuropathology
- hematopathology
