Yale Genitourinary Pathology

Tissue diagnosis by a subspecialty group of expert genitourinary pathologists, with a focus on genitourinary malignancies, including kidney cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer.

Clinical Service

The Genitourinary Pathology service provides subspecialty expertise in tissue-based diagnosis of diseases of the kidney, bladder, prostate, and testis, especially malignancies that arise at these sites. The five attending genitourinary pathologists who cover the service are highly experienced and have worked closely together for many years. Standardization and uniformity of diagnostic approaches and terminology are assured by close and regular interactions amongst the five attendings and through a regular genitourinary pathology consensus conference. We render diagnoses on tissues submitted from Yale New Haven Hospital and on slide consultations from physicians and hospitals in Connecticut and around the United States. The Genitourinary Pathology service has a national and international presence in the pathology community.

Services and Expertise

The Genitourinary Pathology service has daily diagnostic sessions at a dedicated multi-headed microscope in Surgical Pathology at Yale New Haven Hospital. These sign-outs are directed by one of the attending genitourinary pathologists. We also have a renal/genitourinary pathology fellow and pathology resident working with the attending on the service. The service renders diagnoses on all genitourinary tissues submitted to the Yale Pathology Department and also on all genitourinary slide referrals and consultations. Our diagnostic reports represent state-of-the-art diagnostic reporting, using national and international guidelines (such as those in the World Health Organization book on Classification of Tumors of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs, and The College of American Pathologists Cancer Protocols) that we helped establish.