Pathology Associates of Princeton

Located withing the University Medical Center at Princeton, Pathology Associates of Princeton has been providing the highest quality laboratory and anatomic pathology services to the University Medical Center at Princeton and the surrounding central New Jersey region for  20 years.

Pathology Associates of Princeton is a private corporation the professional staff of which are all  board-certified in anatomical pathology, providing surgical and cytopathology to the hospital as well as physician offices, clinics, surgical centers, and endoscopy centers.

When biopsies are taken from you in your physician's office, you have a choice of who you want to prepare and read the slides. Get the correct diagnosis right now, the first time. Choose Pathology Associates of Princeton.

The new University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, opening May 2012

 Breast cancer tissue biopsy and cells (below and above right).

What We Do

Pathology is the branch of medicine that deals with the nature of disease, especially with the structural and functional changes caused by disease.

Pathologists examine under a microscope specimens taken from a patient, to arrive at a diagnosis of the disease process. 

Pathologists supervise the clinical laboratory of the hospital to ensure effective, high quality, and medically appropriate  laboratory testing of blood and other body fluids.  

Pathologists have gone to medical school, have an MD or DO degree, and additional 4+ years of residency training or further sub-specialization training in the field of pathology. 

There are two main branches of Pathology:  Anatomic and Clinical.

Anatomic Pathology deals with the study of the tissues  (organs, muscle, supporting substances, etc) of the body,  by direct visual observation, with or without a microscope.  When tissues are taken from the body, it is the pathologist who examines them to determine the nature of the disease process.  Within anatomic pathology are: Surgical pathology, cytopathology, and autopsy pathology.

Surgical pathology studies the tissues of the body taken as biopsies (small samples taken for diagnosis) or as larger whole specimens or organs, such as a gallbladder diseased by calculi (stones).

Cytopathology studies single or multiples cells, such as those taken from the female cervix as PAP smears.

Autopsy pathology studies the body for disease processes after the death of the patient.

Clinical Pathology deals with the study of substances of the body other than that included under Anatomic Pathology.

It is classically what is thought of as the "Laboratory" and includes:

Hematology

Clinical Chemistry

Microbiology

Blood Bank

Immunology

For more information, click on the services tab above.

Contact Us:

For questions concerning pathology reports or services call: 609-497-4351 (the pathology office at the University Medical Center at Princeton).

For billing inquiries call:609-734-7600. Choose the option for Pathology Associates of Princeton.