[Knowledge of endocrine disease pictures from the viewpoint of the pathologist]

Endocrinology is an independent discipline based on biochemistry and pathochemistry, but we cannot know any endocrine disease entity without making pathomorphological research. In these days professional pathologists cannot define any new endocrine disease entity by the means of the macroscopical examination, but they may contribute to the micromorphological confirmation of many syndromes using the results and methods of histochemistry, topochemistry, immunofluorescence and isotopic diagnostics. In order to give an acceptable explanation they have to integrate the ultrastructural picture with the classic cytologic picture. This the unity of the functional and morphological aspects can prove to be especially lucrative in the research of endocrinology.