WHAT IS GASTROINTESTINAL PATHOLOGY?

GASTROINTESTINAL PATHOLOGY
Photomicrographs of anal squamous cell carcinoma. (a) Hematoxylin and eosin stain, × 100; (b) immunostain for p16 shows an overexpression pattern consistent with transcriptionally active human papillomavirus. Anal Neoplasia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Is Associated With HPV and Perianal Disease: Ruel J, Ko HM, Roda G, Patil N, Zhang D, Jharap B, Harpaz N, Colombel JF - Clinical and translational gastroenterology (2016). Not altered. CC.

Gastrointestinal pathology is the subspecialty of surgical pathology which deals with the diagnosis and characterization of neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases of the digestive tract and accessory organs, such as the pancreas and liver.