Highlights

• Direct and personal communication between the ophthalmologist and pathologist is essential for accurate diagnosis, particularly in special circumstances, such as suspicion of malignancy or determination of a critical diagnosis.

• Tissues for pathologic examination typically require some type of fixation to arrest tissue decomposition and preserve cellular morphology.

• Histologic stains allow contrasting color staining of various cellular and extracellular elements and/or identification of specific material in tissue sections.

Excerpted from BCSC 2020-2021 series: Section 4 - Ophthalmic Pathology and Intraocular Tumors. For more information and to purchase the entire series, please visit https://www.aao.org/bcsc.