Pathology Department

The Pathology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 1977. It has advanced diagnostic and treatment equipment, including: fully automatic biological tissue dehydration machine, frozen microtome, paraffin microtome, automatic embedding machine, biological microscope, liquid-based thin layer preparation machine, etc. Currently there are 7 professional and technical personnel, including 1 chief physician, 1 deputy chief physician, 1 attending physician, 1 technician in charge, 3 technicians, 3 with master's degree or above, and 2 with bachelor's degree. The services currently provided include: pathological examination and diagnosis of surgical specimens; pathological examination and diagnosis of liver puncture, kidney puncture, and tumor puncture tissue; pathological examination and diagnosis of endoscopic tissues such as gastroenteroscopy, bronchoscopy, arthroscopy, colposcopy, and hysteroscopy; preparation and pathological diagnosis of frozen tissue sections; gynecological liquid-based thin-layer cell detection, sputum, urine, pleural effusion, ascites, nipple discharge, brush smear, and other exfoliative cytology and body fluid cytology detection and diagnosis; Ability to carry out histochemistry, immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence detection (including more than 10 types of histochemical staining, more than 50 types of immunohistochemistry detection indicators, and 6 types of immunofluorescence) and capable of carrying out typing detection of 23 subtypes of human papilloma virus (HPV);Filmmaking, staining and image analysis of pathological morphology in scientific research work. Since the establishment of the department, it has carried out a number of new technology projects to assist clinical departments and scientific research to go hand in hand. It not only plays a role in escorting clinical departments, but also independently and assists in completing a number of national, municipal and education committee scientific research projects.