Pathology and Clinical Practice

Diagnostic pathology

Diagnostic pathology identifies the cause of disorders based on morphologic and/or clinical pathology findings, as well as history, clinical signs, and ancillary test results. It is important in all areas of pathology, both in spontaneous and in experimentally-induced disorders. In experimental learning’s, it is important to separate out the effects of spontaneous disorder and those induced by the experimental agent/test article. Diagnostic pathology is essential to investigate unexpected disorder or death in laboratory fauna colonies or prior to the termination of a research.