Virchows Archiv是一種出版最廣泛意義上的疾病，特別是人類病理學基礎形態學研究的媒體。有關外科病理學、實驗形態學、超微結構研究、免疫細胞化學分析和分子生物學的文章，只要能闡明人類病理學的某些方面，就可以被接受。將審議與理解人類病理學有關的其他領域的工作報告。也歡迎有關新方法和新技術在病理學中的應用的論文。

Virchows Archiv is a medium for the publication of fundamental morphological research on disease in the widest sense and on human pathology in particular. Articles concerned with surgical pathology experimental morphology ultrastructural research immunocytochemical analysis and molecular biology may be accepted provided they illuminate some facet of human pathology. Consideration will be given to reports of work in other fields relevant to the understanding of human pathology. Papers on the application of new methods and techniques in pathology are also welcomed.