Excellence in Gastrointestinal Pathology

• Experienced, board-certified pathologists focused on gastrointestinal pathology
• Intradepartmental meetings to review all difficult and unusual cases
• Access to new technologies
• Intra-company consults available from AmeriPath GI pathology specialists
• Expert consultations available from world renowned GI pathologists, Robert E. Petras, M.D. and Terry L. Gramlich, M.D. at AmeriPath’s Institute of Gastrointestinal Pathology and Digestive Disease.

Advantage: Exceptional Diagnostic Accuracy Rate

Benefits of a Local Service

• Extensive managed care coverage
• Superior turn-around time
• Frozen section biopsies
• Easy access to pathologists for physician-to-physician consultations
• Friendly client service department providing rapid and accurate responses
• User-friendly specimen collection kits
• Patient education materials
• Hospital affiliations allowing biopsy to procedure correlation

Advantage: Increased Physician and Patient Satisfaction

Unique and Innovative Technologies

Enhanced Image Reports:

• Detailed diagnostic reports
• High-resolution color photomicrographs provide a representation of the key
  pathological findings for physicians and patients
• Color-coded anatomic mapping to easily view the distribution and severity of
  disease
  
  

  Upper GI Reports (PRINTABLE PDF)

  - Vascular ectasia
  - Barrett’s esophagus
  - Active Gastritis, Helicobacter pylori

  Lower GI Report (PRINTABLE PDF)

  - Chemotherapy induced colitis
  - Collagenous colitis
  - Intramucosal neuroma
  - Intestinal Spirochetosis

Advanced Testing:

• Special Stains
• Immunohistochemistry
• Tumor Markers, e.g., P53, P27
• DNA Analysis
• Molecular Pathology
  

Advantage: Access to Information and Technology to Improve Patient Care