Abstract

At a quick glance, pediatric pathology can be evaluated as a narrow field of pathology. Most people believe that pediatric pathology is unnecessary subspecialty and every ordinary pathologist can easily examine the pediatric materials. Indeed, neither pediatric pathology is a limited field of pathology, nor pediatric pathologist is a “holidaymaker” who is examining less materials. On the contrary; the human development from conception to late adolescence passes through the very dynamic stages and pediatric pathology is a very complex subspecialty requiring a broad knowledge of normal and pathologic processes that vary through development. In the final analyses, the pediatric pathologist must have a special knowledge of obstetric, gynecology, embryology, genetics, nephrology, neurology, oncology, dermatology, metabolic disorders, infectious diseases, forensic medicine, and child abuse and so on.

Technical and scientific equipments are necessary factors in pediatric pathology, as they are in every other field of pathology. But if material is isolated from the story and dreams, from the past and future of the child and if the relation between pediatric pathologist and clinician can’t be realized; pathological diagnosis will be doubtful.