Marcia Fisher at El Centro Regional Medical Center (at the southeastern tip of California) asks:
>>We would like to find another type of decal solution for our bone marrow core >>biopsies. The current solution, which is also used on routine bone specimens, >>is leaching out the iron deposits. What are others using for BM and times >>used? We currently use 45 minutes to one hour after fixation. These are adult >>BM cores only.<< Any practical decalcifier is going to remove some hemosiderin iron. You need to do the iron stain (Perls prussian blue reaction) on a smear AND on the clot section or marrow particle section. "Decal" is the name of a proprietary decalcifier. It should not be used as a generic term for a decalcifying solution. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
