[Clinical demands on the morphologist in the area of surgical gynecology].

At present in gynecologic oncology no therapeutic strategy is possible without exact histopathological diagnostic procedures according clinical rationales. Describing morphological records, exact details are therefore necessary on clinical staging, histological grade and type of the tumor. This requires a standardized preparation technique and a clinically adapted microscopic working procedure on surgery material. Above all this is necessary for discrimination of defined early cancerous changes and invasive carcinomas.--Analysis of tumor metric is more and more completed by methods of picture analysis (tissue-texture). The principals of an optimal cooperation between clinicians and morphological workers in gynecologic oncology are presented as an example on common used macroscopic and microscopic preparation methods at the histological laboratory of the Department of Gynecologic Morphology at the University Hospital Heidelberg.