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University Hospital Centre Zagreb
Department of Pathology and Cytology
Kišpatićeva 12, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
Head of Department: Professor Damir Babić, MD, PhD
Secretary: +385 (0)1 2388 095
Fax.: +385 (0)1 2376 029
E-mail: rradman@kbc-zagreb.hr
Autopsy Service: +385 (0)1 2388 088
Brief History
 The Department of Pathology at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb was officially instituted in 1977 including the Autopsy Service (location Rebro) and the Division of Gynaecologic and Prenatal Pathology (location Petrova; today Referral Centre for Gynaecologic and Prenatal Pathology of the Croatian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare). Up to that time, its precursor institution, the Department of Pathology within the University of Zagreb School of Medicine, had been providing clinical and surgical pathology services to the numerous departments at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb. When in 1992 the pathology building was adapted, Professor Stanko Jukić, MD, PhD, succeeded in consolidating all pathology services under the Department of Pathology at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb and became its first Head.
In its beginnings, the Cytology Division was an organizational unit of the Hematocytology Laboratory of the Department of Internal Medicine founded in 1955. When the Department of Laboratory Diagnostics was established in 1980 the Cytology Division became an integral part of its organizational structure. Over many years the chief of the Cytology Division was Senior Consultant Dr. Dubravka Boban, under whose guidance the division grew organizationally into 3 subdivisions: cytomorphology, cyto/immunocytochemistry, and general cytology. In 2006 the Cytology Division was merged with the Department of Pathology and was subsequently given its current name.
General Information
The Department of Pathology and Cytology operates at 3 different locations called Rebro, Petrova and Šalata. The Department provides both routine and expert diagnostic services in a wide range of pathology and cytology analyses: numerous methods of molecular pathology, immunohistochemistry, electron microscopy, quantitative and morphometry analysis (image analyzer) such as PCR technique, flow cytometry, diagnostic aspiration and exfoliative cytomorphology, immunocytochemistry methods, image-guided FNAs of the breast, lymph nodes, bone marrow, surface tumors ect. We provide top quality consultative services for most of the institutions in the country. The number of specimens examined per year amounts to 30000 histopathology cases, more than 16000 cytology cases, 1000 electron microscopy analyses, and an average of 2000 molecular pathology tests and immunohistochemistry analyses. We perfom from 500 to 600 autopsies per year, the findings of which are discussed with clinicians and presented at autopsy conferences.
The Department of Pathology and Cytology consists of a dedicated team of individuals with varying interests, duties, and responsibilities: 16 pathologists and 6 cytologists, mostly PhD holders,14 medical technologists, 9 laboratory technicians etc.
In addition to clinical and surgical pathology and cytology services, the Department has extensive and diverse research programs, it conducts a pathology residency program in Anatomic Pathology and provides educational programs for numerous undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate medical students, and residents in pathology and cytology.
Last updated: nov 22, 2010.
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