Pathology

The department currently has a variety of high-end imported equipment: a 10-person multi-headed microscope, 1 set consisting of a Motic digital slide-scanning microscope and a remote consultation system, more than 10 Olympus microscopes, 4 routine paraffin sectioning machines, 2 frozen-section machines, 3 fully automated immunohistochemical staining instruments, 3 fully automated liquid-based cytology slide-preparation instruments, 2 fully automated routine paraffin stainers, 1 fluorescence microscope, 1 fluorescence in situ hybridization instrument, 1 Motic-ASPS sedimentation-based preparation system, and 1 Motic DNA stainer, among other equipment. The Department of Pathology routinely performs the following procedures: conventional paraffin sections, rapid intraoperative frozen sections, puncture cytology examinations, exfoliative cytology examinations, liquid-based thin-layer (TCT) cytology examinations, special stains (including PAS staining, acid-fast staining, Congo red staining, toluidine blue, etc.), fully automated immunohistochemical staining (more than 100 antibodies), in situ hybridization, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and remote digital pathology consultations. Our department performs more than 25,000 routine biopsy pathology cases annually, more than 40,000 liquid-based cytology examinations, more than 4,000 DNA liquid-based cytology tests, more than 300 immunofluorescence examinations, more than 600 special stains, and more than 1,200 rapid intraoperative frozen-section pathological diagnoses; the concordance rate of rapid paraffin-section and frozen-section pathological diagnoses reaches 99.5%, and the department meets various inspection requirements, including those of the Autonomous Region Quality Management Year, the IS9000 international quality certification system, and the re-evaluation for Grade III Class A accreditation, among others; it can provide accurate diagnoses and pathological classifications for various difficult diseases and diseases of specific specialties. The Department of Pathology currently has 16 staff members, including 1 expert assigned to aid Xinjiang, 6 staff members with senior professional titles, and 4 with intermediate professional titles; 2 doctoral students, 4 master's students, and 6 bachelor's degree graduates; it has led 4 provincial-level projects and several university- and hospital-level projects, and has published more than 20 papers.