Pathology
The Cook Children's Pathology program investigates the causes of an illness to provide diagnoses and therapies.
Services provided
Anatomic pathology
- Tissue diagnosis on surgical and biopsy specimens, including immunohistochemistry
- Cytopathology of body fluids
- Performance of pediatric and perinatal post-mortem examinations.
Transfusion medicine
- Immunohematology
- Selection of blood component therapy
Clinical pathology consultations
- General chemistry
- Hematology/coagulation
- Microbiology/serology
- Virology
- Immunology
- Flow cytometry
- Point-of-care tests
- Molecular diagnostic tests for many infectious agents
Selected rapid diagnostic tests are available for both inpatients and outpatients.
