[The histopathologic examination in quality assessment]

Series of problems hidden so far, have been raised by the ongoing efforts to reorganising the previous public health-care organisation into a real, assurance-based system. There became evident the urgent need the main professional duties, their personal, technical-financial conditions and, the basic professional normatives to be defined. In this recent work, attempts are made to give an overview of the possibilities, how the diagnostic surgical pathology may function in the future quality assurance and quality control programs. Problems of internal quality assurance and control methods of diagnostic histopathology are also discussed.