Facilities:

The following are located on the eighth and ninth floors of the building located in the Plaza de Cristo Rey:

  • Floor nine: offices of the head of service, attending physicians, researchers and session room.
  • Floor eight: administration, receipt of specimens, intraoperative room, dissection room, main laboratory, immunohistochemistry laboratory, molecular biology laboratories, residents' room, cytology section and files.

Technological equipment:

  • Leica Tissue Processors.
  • Agilent CoverStainer Haematoxylin-Eosin Staining System.
  • Agilent Artisan Special Techniques Staining System.
  • Agilent Autostainer and Omnis Immunohistochemistry Staining System and Ventana Ultra.
  • Hologic Liquid Cytology Processing.
  • IntelliSite Philips Digital Pathology System.
  • PCR, RT-PCR and pyrosequencing platforms.
  • NextSeq and MiSeq Illumina Massive Sequencing Platform.

Techniques and procedures:

  • Receipt of samples: automatic assignment of number and pathologist to each sample with the SGLAC programme. Continuous traceability of the sample from receipt to diagnosis.
  • Main laboratory: process by cutting and staining with Haematoxylin and Eosin for diagnosis. This includes special histochemical stains.
  • Digitalise histological preparations in Philips IMS Scanners for diagnosis through digital pathology with the possibility of real-time consultations.
  • Immunohistochemistry laboratory for immunostaining in automatic stainers. There is a panel of 283 monoclonal antibodies for oncological diagnosis/prognosis, with the possibility of performing double immunohistochemical staining in the same preparation.
  • Perform immunofluorescence techniques applicable in renal and cutaneous pathology.
  • Molecular pathology section: FISH and PCR techniques to study translocations, deletions, amplifications and mutations for diagnosis, prognosis and response/resistance to oncological treatments.
  • Rearrange immunoglobulin heavy and light chains and beta and gamma TCR.
  • Microsatellite instability.
  • HPV virus genotyping.
  • Oncopanels: RNA-ONCOPANEL, somatic BRCA, small and large B-cell lymphomas, mutations in solid tumours, TCR rearrangement.
  • Liquid biopsy.
  • Cytology section: processing and diagnosis of smears from gynaecological cytology, fluids and biopsies. Histochemical and immunohistochemical stains can be applied to cytological material, as well as molecular pathology techniques, when the material is suitable.
  • File: File kerosene blocks and histological preparations by years and sample number for legal, scientific or academic reasons.