Hi all, for those of you who also work with cytology - what is= your procedure for fluids that have a large volume? How much of the fluid do you process?
I am wanting to compare our polic= y against some others. We had an instance this week where we received= 1000 mL of pleural fluid and processed 100 mL of that after making sure it= was mixed well. The first cell blocks only contained fibrin, but the= surepath slides had malignant cells. When we went back to the contai= ner the fluid had settled after 24 hours so we poured off the top part of t= he fluid and only processed the gunk at the bottom. The second time t= here were malignant cells in the cell block. My pathologist is pushin= g for us to process 100% of the fluids, 100% of the time, saying what we cu= rrently do isn't enough. This would result in a big mess when we get those = 3000 mL fluids. Any ideas or suggestions out there? = Thanks! _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
