UVA School of Medicine

Catalogs of Histology and Pathology Virtual Slides

A freely accessible public domain Virtual Slidebox of Histology and Pathology slides is available at:  http://www.path.uiowa.edu/virtualslidebox/

University of Virginia database of Virtual Slides:

The University of Virginia has a database of histology and pathology Virtual Slides housed within the School of Medicine’s Multimedia Database (MMDB). To find Virtual Slides on a particular topic:

• 1. Go to:  http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/mmdb/SearchAdvanced.cfm
• 2. Go to the drop-down menu entitled “High Resolution File Types” at the lower middle of the screen.
• 3.  Scroll down and click on “svs”
• 4.  Under “Display 25 matches per page”, switch this to “100”
• 5.  At the top of the page, enter a search term of your choosing (such as “kidney”)
• 6.  Click on the “Search” button.
• 7.  To select a particular Virtual Slide for viewing, click on the “High Resolution” link. The slide will open in the mScope web viewer.