Pathology

The Pathology Department began in 1983 as a small unit established by director Li Bingru, who worked in both clinical medicine and pathology. After more than 20 years it became an independent department in 2004. From an initial two-person unit with rudimentary equipment and only liver biopsy specimens, it has grown into a department of over 300 square metres with advanced equipment and nearly 1,000 liver biopsy specimens annually, focused on liver and infectious diseases while serving other specialties. It belongs to the Zhejiang pathology specialty alliance.

The eight staff comprise one chief physician, three attending physicians, one associate chief technologist and three technologists, including three master's graduates. Equipment includes Leica automated tissue stainers, coverslippers, processors, microtomes and cryostats; Leica/Olympus tissue microscopes; an Olympus fluorescence microscope; a grossing station, specimen refrigerator, Anbiping integrated TCT processor, HPV in situ hybridization instrument, pathology management system and Jiangfeng digital slide scanner. The department has quality-control and organizational policies, work rules, equipment procedures, workflows and role descriptions.

Services include routine H&E and intraoperative frozen-section examination and diagnosis; around 20 special stains and over 120 immunohistochemical stains; conventional cytology and cell blocks; gynecologic and non-gynecologic liquid-based cytology; immunofluorescent staining for tuberculosis and fungi; HPV in situ hybridization; a liver pathology specimen bank and pathology consultation clinic.