The urgency of implementation of the refence center approach in pathology practice

The project to establish the reference center for addressing scientific-practice, organizational and methodological challenges of immunohistochemical, pathomorphological and molecular genetic laboratories and centers of data analysis and interpretation of radiological methods started in 2020 within the Department of fundamental pathology of Endocrinology research center. The present review focuses on the prospects of a concept of reference center with an emphasis on the current state of Russian pathology service.