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Department of Pathology Diagnostic Services

Hematopathology and Bone Marrow

The Division of Hematopathology of the Department of Pathology at the Columbia Medical Center (CPMC) is directly responsible for all the handling and diagnostic evaluation of hematopathologic material submitted from the various CMC units. This hematopathologic material consists mainly of biopsies from lymph nodes, spleens and other tissue resections submitted for hematopathologic evaluation, bone marrow biopsies, bone marrow aspirate smears and touch preparations, cytospin preparations of CSF and smears of other body fluids and peripheral blood smears.

All necessary ancillary studies, including immunohistology, flow cytometry, molecular pathology, and cytogenetics are available and performed by core laboratories, which are part of the Department of Pathology and are all located at the Presbyterian Hospital.

We, as hematopathologists, are directly responsible for the interpretation and signing out of biopsies from lymph nodes, spleens and other tissue resections submitted for hematopathologic evaluation, bone marrow biopsies, bone marrow aspirate smears and touch preparations, peripheral blood smears, cytospin preparations of CSF and smears of other body fluids, and all immunohistologic and flow cytometric studies obtained on all hematopathologic cases.

We see a great variety of hematologic conditions, including: non-neoplastic and neoplastic hematopathology, and adult and pediatric cases.


 
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