TISSUE SPECIMENS TISSUE SPECIMENS Routine tissue specimens received by a histopathology depart - ment include those intended for histopathological analysis and those for cytopathological assessment. These may overlap, and ‘cytology’ preparations sometimes undergo reprocessing to become histological specimens. TISSUE SPECIMENS Routine tissue specimens received by a histopathology depart - ment include those intended for histopathological analysis and those for cytopathological assessment. These may overlap, and ‘cytology’ preparations sometimes undergo reprocessing to become histological specimens. TISSUE SPECIMENS Routine tissue specimens received by a histopathology depart - ment include those intended for histopathological analysis and those for cytopathological assessment. These may overlap, and ‘cytology’ preparations sometimes undergo reprocessing to become histological specimens.