Histopathology / Cytology

What we do

The Department of Histopathology at St James's Hospital offers subspecialised diagnostic reporting in: gynaecological, breast, lung, urological, gastrointestinal, head and neck, ENT, dental, skin, soft tissue, hepatic, haematolymphoid pathology and cytopathology.

The department predominately provides diagnostic opinion for patients of St James's Hospital and for GPs within the Eastern Region.   The department also has a large national referral service.

The department contributes to the extensive multi disciplinary team(MDT) meeting schedule of the hospital.

The department offers several excellent diagnostic facilities including automated immunohistochemistry, flow cytometry and access to molecular diagnostics.

The department conducts hospital and coroner directed post mortems.

The department is accreditated by CPA UK.

The Department of Histopathology at St James's Hospital has a strong reputation for post graduate training and research in histopathology.

The academic Department of Histopathology at Trinity College Dublin provides teaching to medical undergraduates in their 3rd and 4th medical years.

Research laboratories are based at St James's Hospital, AMNCH Tallaght and the Coombe Women's Hospital and offer a full range of genomic, functional genomic and proteomic facilities.

For information in regard to the test repertoire offered, sample types required,  and test turnaround times, please see the LabMed User Guide

Contact Details

Phone: (01) 416 2992 or (01) 416 2063
Fax: (01) 410 3514

Postal address:
Histopathology/Cytology  Department,
LabMed Directorate,
St. James's Hospital,
Dublin 8.