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Histopathology Medical Technologists


Histopathology medical technologists use microscopes to study the suffering tissues. The name itself suggests everything "histos" means tissue and "pathos" means suffering. The microscopic test of tissue is necessary in order to study patents of various diseases.

While considering clinical medicine histopathology, it refers to the examination of biopsy or surgical specimen by a histopathology medical technologist. Biopsy is a medical test that involves the removal of cells or tissues to get examined under the microscope. When a single sample tissue is removed, the method is called incisional biopsy and if an entire lump or suspicious area is removed then this method is called excisional biopsy.

Histopathology medical technologist is a health care professional who performs diagnostic analytical tests on human body tissues to determine which kind of disease is caused to it. These all tests are performed under the observation of histopathology medical technologists. They work in clinical or pathological laboratories at hospitals, doctor's offices, and reference pathological labs but within biological domain only.

Diagnostic Histopathology is of vital importance for the patient's management. With the combination of morphological analysis, pattern recognition and input from subsidiary techniques Histopathology medical technologists can make consistent and reproducible diagnoses which are still used to direct the surgeon's hand. At present the role of these technologists includes not only achieving correct diagnosis, but also providing a number of prognostic and predictive aspects like classification, grade stage and molecular markers.

Histopathology is one of the major tools of diagnosis in mycology; its advantage is its speed, low-cost, and the capability to provide a presumptive identification of infective fungus and signifying the tissue reaction at the same time. The technologists use special techniques like spherules that act as a definitive identification of the etiologic agent. It is the only way to diagnose infections caused by "Loboa loboi" or in other words "Rhinosporidium seeberi" because cultivation techniques have to be dated successfully. Number of histological stains are available that can be used to visualize fungi in tissue section.

The overall objective of the histopathology medical technologists is to utilize all possible histopathology techniques in combination with the molecular techniques to further consideration of the disease process.

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