A Fetal Pathologist is one who examines or investigates the path or cause of a fetal demise. This task is performed by an autopsy, removal of the body organs and or the brain. After a careful examination, the pathologist submits sections from removed body parts to generate microscopic slides for a more detailed observation.

The Fetal Pathologist above specializes in twin placentas; he investigates the cause of death and or verifies how monochorionic twins share the same bloodline. Monochorionic twins are twins who share one placenta disk.

Bloodline identification is performed by injecting a self-identifying ink into the arteries and veins. The pathologist depicted here chose to inject yellow ink to identify the arteries and red ink to identify the veins, distinctively tracking the network of the bloodline.

Your specimen, weather it be a skin biopsy, tonsil and adenoids, moles, polypoid tissue fragments, lymph nodes, or organs such as prostate or colon are excised and analyzed for study. Either of these organs or tissue fragments surgically cut into or removed will end up into the pathology department transported in a container filled with a liquid fixative called formalin, accompanied by a requisition that denotes what the specimen is and where it is from.

The Pathologist carefully examines these specimens for any abnormalities; taking thin sections and placing it into cassettes, perhaps as many as 1 to 26, labeled from A to Z for transport to the histology department for the production of microscopic slides. These slides are then read for a more closer observation or detailed investigation.