Pathology is the study of the cause and nature of disease along with anatomical and functional changes, broadly classified into two areas: basic (experimental) pathology and hospital (diagnostic) pathology. Basic pathology is responsible for medical research and the education of medical students, while hospital pathology processes various tissues and specimens collected from the patient's body to diagnose the patient's disease using microscopy, immunology, and molecular biological methods. Based on this, the Department of Anatomic Pathology observes the morphological changes of tissues obtained from human organs through biopsy, histopathology, cytopathology, aspiration biopsy, and autopsy, providing crucial information for the treatment and prognosis of diseases by making accurate diagnoses.
In this sense, clinical pathology can be seen as playing a bridging role between basic medicine and clinical medicine.

[Equipment Introduction]
The main equipment in our department includes the following:
- Automatic Tissue Processor : A product of Shandon, UK, capable of automatically handling the entire series of tissue processing steps.
- Tissue Embedding System : A product of Shandon, UK, responsible for the embedding process.
- Autostainer : A product of Shandon, UK, responsible for the staining process of tissues and cells.
- Cytospin : Cytospin A product of Shandon, UK, necessary for preparing appropriate slides for cytology testing.
- Microtome : Essential for creating thin sections from embedded tissue suitable for interpretation. A Microm product.

[LINK]
Internet sites related to the field of pathology are introduced below as the places we primarily use.
1. Domestic
- Korean Medical Association (http://kma.org/)
- Korean Society of Pathologists (http://www.pathology.or.kr)
- Korean Society for Cytopathology (http://www.cytopathology.or.kr)
- Ajou Pathology (http://ajoupath.ajou.ac.kr/index.htm)
- Catholic University Pathology (http://www.iWorld.net/~demerol/)
- Yonsei University Pathology (http://www.yumc.yonsei.ac.kr/medicine/pathol/pathol.html)
- Seoul National University Pathology (http://medicine.snu.ac.kr/pathology/)

2. International
- American Society of Clinical Pathologists(http://www.ascp.org)
- American Society of Cytopathology(http://www.cytopathology.org)
- International Society of Urologic Pathology(http://iusp.dfdis.com)
- College of American Pathologists(http://www.cap.org)
- American Cancer Society(http://www.cancer.org)
- World Health Organization(http://www.who.int)
- International Academy of Pathology(http://www.afip.org/iap)
- National Cancer Institute(http://www.nci.nih.gov)(http://www.afip.mil)

* University of Pittsburgh Medical Center`s Department of Pathology
- (http://path.upmc.edu)
- Webpath(http://medstat.med.utah.edu/WebPath/WebPath.html)

* Free Literature Search
- National Library of Medicine(http://www.nlm.nih.gov)
- Search Medline(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed)
- Search Medline for Acta Cytologica

* Commercial Companies
- Shandon(http://www.shandon.com)
- Zeiss(http://www.zeiss.com)
- Neopath Corp.(http://www.neopath.com)