An underrated personality of the Cluj School of Pathology: Alexandru Serban (1920-1977).

The Romanian School of Pathology from Cluj has an important prestige, well known in Romania and abroad. It was founded in the same year with the Romanian Faculty of Medicine from the same City. The founder of the School of Pathology was Victor Babes (1854-1926).

Medico-historical overview and histopathological comments about a hyalinizing trabecular tumor case of thyroid gland.

Introduction: Hyalinizing Trabecular Tumor (HTT) of the thyroid gland is a rare and controversial tumor, whose rigorous identification is extremely important due to the difficulty of establishing a correct diagnosis using only the routine histological stains (Hematoxylin-Eosin, Periodic Acid-Schiff, van Gieson, etc.). Using only usual stains, difficult problems of differential diagnosis arise.