Pathological Institute

		Chief physician	Prof. Dr. Hans Arnholdt
		Executive senior physician	Dr. Theodor Wagner
		Phone	+49 (0) 821-400-2150
		Fax	+49 (0) 821-400-2162 (chief secretariat of clinic)
		E-mail	hans.arnholdt@klinikum-augsburg.de

1. Medical service portfolio

Histological and cytological tests (with instantaneous section diagnostics) – immune histological and molecular pathological tests – clinical post mortem

2. Specific main focuses of medical care

• Examination of tissue samples and preparations from operations of almost all disciplines of modern medicine   The examination methods comprise fine tissue stand practices as well as modern methods (immunehistochemistry, molecular pathology)    
  Per year ca.

• 143 000 histological tests, thereof
• 15 000 immunohistochemical
• 10 000 molecular pathological tests and
• 5 800 instantaneous section examinations
• 100 post mortems

• Daily conferences together with colleagues of all medical disciplines of the Clinical Center. Actual cases are discussed interdisciplinarily on the basis of all present findings in a modern well-equipped lecture auditorium, and the therapy best for the patient is chosen. Particularly for the diagnosis and treatment of malignant diseases the Clinical Center fulfills a significant quality standard with this permanent institution as numerous professional associations stipulate it.

3. Further services offered

The head of the Pathologic Institute is chairman of the Tumor Center. The Tumor Center  ugsburg is the only one of the five Bavarian tumor centers that is not directly connected to  a university. In the catchment area (Administrative Region of Swabia) live ca. 1.8 million inhabitants. In this region, all acilities necessary for the interdisciplinary medical care of tumor patients are multiply represented.
The Tumor Center is characterized by a detailed structure, amongst others keeping the tumor register, organization of  roject groups for different tumor entities and interdisciplinary tumor conferences, a psychooncological service as well  as the connection of office-based doctors and clinics in the region of Augsburg and Swabia, which treat tumor patients.

– The proxy person of the Tumor Center is Prof. Dr. G. Schlimok, chief physician of the II. Medical Clinic.