Flow cytometry: methodology and applications in pathology

Flow cytometry offers pathologists a powerful new method which can be applied especially for diagnosis, prediction of prognosis and measurement of response to therapy of tumours. It also has a wide variety of other applications in research and its use for investigation of non-neoplastic disease has only just begun. The object of this brief review is to stimulate interest in this technique and to outline some of the most interesting applications that may be of use to pathologists in the near future.