Pathology is defined as the study of abnormal and pathological processes and conditions in the body and their causes.

It mainly deals with morphologicaldetectable pathological changes in the body.

Pathologists make an essential contribution to patient care by making pathoanatomical, histological and cytological diagnoses, which play a key role in the treatment of many of the patients admitted and treated at Ulm University Hospital. The diagnostic spectrum is constantly updated and expanded in the course of scientific and technical progress and includes the established methods of immunomorphology, molecular diagnostics as well as classical and molecular cytogenetic tumour diagnostics.