Our Specialties
Nerve Pathology
- NextGenPath Diagnostics on an average caters more than 100 muscle biopsies a year.
- Muscle pathology is a sub-speciality of neuropathology that deals with diseases of skeletal muscle.
- We are the only standalone diagnostic center that has an expert myopathologist who can interpret snap frozen muscle biopsy along with a panel of special stains, enzyme stains, immunohistochemistry with or without ultrastructural and molecular studies.
- Method of sending the biopsy to our lab: a single fresh (unfixed) open biopsy (2x2cm) from a moderately affected muscle (MRC grade not less than 3/5) wrapped in slightly saline moistened gauge piece/clingfilm in a closed ice-pack container as quickly as possible.
- Samples are received 24×7 on all days.
- Formalin fixed muscle biopsies are neither accepted nor processed in our lab.
- Learning is a continuous process and we believe that teaching and publishing relevant research are the greatest contributions to the society apart from our patient care services.
- NextGenPath Archives serves as an excellent freely available online resource for case-based learning of muscle pathology.
