The "doc" is wrong, otherwise your histology sections to be stained with Gram & AFB should also be sent to micro. Perhaps you will not have to do them anymore. Your "doc's" reasoning is purely oxymoronic. René J.
--- On Wed, 5/6/09, Angela Bitting <akbitt...@geisinger.edu> wrote: From: Angela Bitting <akbitt...@geisinger.edu> Subject: [Histonet] Gram & AFB staining FNA smears To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2009, 9:22 AM The subject of staining FNA smears with AFB and Gram stains in Histology vs in Micro came up today. Is there a reason that FNAs can't be stained the same way we stain our tissue sections? One of our docs was under the impression that it's not acceptable to use the staining methods we use in our Histology lab. I don't know what method Micro labs use, so I was hoping someone could shed some light on this subject for me. Thanks, as always, Angie Angela Bitting, HT(ASCP) Technical Specialist, Histology Geisinger Medical Center 100 N Academy Ave. MC 23-00 Danville, PA 17822 phone 570-214-9634 fax 570-271-5916 No trees were hurt in the sending of this email However many electrons were severly inconvienienced! IMPORTANT WARNING: The information in this message (and the documents attached to it, if any) is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken, or omitted to be taken, in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please delete all electronic copies of this message (and the documents attached to it, if any), destroy any hard copies you may have created and notify me immediately by replying to this email. Thank you._______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet