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Our faculty physicians’ group for medical and procedural services, NYU Pathology Associates, provides consultations and offers care to patients from Tisch and Bellevue Hospitals and to those referred from NYU and private practice physicians in the metropolitan area through a wide array of specialties.

General surgical pathology is a large practice area with several sub-specialized services. This includes autopsy, breast pathology, gastro-intestinal and liver pathology, obstetric and gynecologic pathology, hematopathology, neuropathology, pediatric pathology, and renal pathology. We have a strong cytopathology service and operate three clinics for Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA), with one clinic located in the NYU Clinical Cancer Center and another at Bellevue Hospital. Cytopathologists, who microscopically examine cells derived from fluids or tissue smears, provide on-site services and consultations for physicians’ practices in the New York metropolitan area as well. We also offer a wide range of laboratory medicine tests and procedures.

In addition, NYU Pathology is actively involved in molecular pathology, an emerging and growing service area focused on the use of nucleic acid-based procedures (DNA or RNA) for molecular and genetic studies of disease in tissues and cells. Our state-of-the-art molecular pathology tests span both the anatomic and clinical disciplines of pathology. Molecular Pathology increases the specificity of the diagnosis (for identifying the disease), clarifies the prognosis (the potential behavior of the disease), and determines the therapeutic approaches (the best treatment options). It is a promising new terrain for the future of patient care.

Procedures
Many long-established and common procedures are administered through NYU Pathology. For example, Fine Needle Aspiration, an alternative to surgical biopsy, is a procedure in which cells from masses or cysts are removed by safely drawing them through a very fine needle attached to a syringe. Perhaps the most commonly known cytopathology procedure is the Pap Smear (or Papanicolaou test). Other common procedures administered by technicians and physicians through NYU Pathology Associates and its faculty members are surgical biopsy, exfoliative and effusion cytology, flow cytometry, and skin biopsy.

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