pulmonary pathology pulmonary pathology pulmonary pathology is the subspecialty of surgical pathology which deals with the diagnosis and characterization of neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases of the lungs and thoracic pleura. diagnostic specimens are often obtained via bronchoscopic transbronchial biopsy, ct-guided percutaneous biopsy, or video-assisted thoracic surgery (vats). the diagnosis of inflammatory or fibrotic diseases of the lungs is considered by many pathologists to be particularly challenging. this article is issued from wikipedia. the text is licensed under creative commons - attribution - sharealike. additional terms may apply for the media files.