Medicover Histopathology

Medicover’s Diagnostic Services range from routine to advanced tests across all major clinical pathology areas. Histopathology represents one of specialty areas which Medicover focuses on.

Histopathology is the study of solid tissue obtained through elective biopsy or during surgery. The samples are used in primary testing for diagnosis and around 15–20 per cent of them are referred for a second opinion. Histopathology plays a crucial role in disease detection, especially in cancer diagnosis.

Digital pathology enables the acquisition, management and interpretation of pathology information by scanning a glass slide. In order to create a digital slide, the glass slides with the sample tissue are captured with a scanner, which results in a high-resolution digital image

Medicover has implemented a digital platform across eastern Europe that connects more than 100 pathologists with our three core laboratories located in Serbia, Poland and Romania, and smaller labs in Turkey and Moldova as well as our molecular pathology laboratories in Germany, Serbia, and Poland.

In our laboratories in Belgrade, Bucharest and Lodz, we have the newest generation of digital scanners. Through this platform, Medicover pathologists can provide primary diagnostic services as well as second opinion services for hospitals & laboratories throughout the word.

In histopathology, beside accuracy, speed is very important.

There are diseases where the diagnosis is very urgent and must be completed as soon as possible.

With digital technology, we can collaborate remotely on patient cases with specialists across the world to confirm the diagnosis in a very short time.

Having a second opinion will also minimise the chances of errors. According to US latest studies, 15% of initial diagnoses had to be changed after consulting another specialist for a second opinion and more than 35% of therapies should be changed.

Medicover has a network of +100 histopathologists from more than 10 countries, covering all subspecialties in pathology. The experts of the Medicover digital pathology network are from well-known medical institutions in UK, Germany and USA, offering input in diagnosis of difficult cases.

The scanning of the glass slides takes just a few minutes, after which the image is ready to be sent for diagnosis anywhere in the world.

Due to technical properties of latest generation of digital scanners, diagnostic is more accurate and faster.

The Medicover team of Histopathologists can provide a report within 1-10 days, in several languages.

Digital pathology enables Medicover histopathologists to work from anywhere at any time. They can participate in multidisciplinary tumor boards digitally.

We can help you to enter the world of digital pathology by training your laboratory staff.

Dr. Vesna Čemerikič Martinović, Head of Histopathology, Diagnostic Services, Medicover, welcomes you to the world of digital pathology! She is an expert in hematopathology and coordinates the digital transformation of pathology within Medicover.

Watch her video presentation of Medicover Histopathology.

If you are interested in partnering with Medicover or need more information, please contact us:

e-mail: [email protected]

Phone number: +381 63 8623768