Yes, it does. The air bubble went directly under the tissue. Vikki
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019, 8:43 PM Jennifer Phinney <jh...@vet.k-state.edu> wrote: > Vikki, > Did the air bubble affect the section quality on the slide? If not, would > it have been worth the delay to the case in order to melt and re-embed the > tissue? > > I only re-embed blocks with air bubbles if it will affect the quality of > the slide myself. > > > Jennifer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Victoria Baker via Histonet <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:49 PM > To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Subject: [Histonet] Air pocket in paraffin blocks > > Hi, > > When I was trained to do embedding there were many things that the > professor stressed to me need to be done in order to have the tissue block > acceptable for sectioning. One of these was air bubbles. > > Recently we had a new tech embed a derm block that had an bubble that was > pretty big. The other (experienced) techs didn't think anything of it > either and sectioned it. When I got the block for IHC screening I made a > QA form stating that the block should have been re-embedded before giving > it to be sectioned, or when the first tech sectioned it could have repaired > the block or melted it down. This air bubble was big enough to be seen so > I don't think it could have been missed - unless the block wasn't checked > right after embedding. > > What has me a little upset is that no one seemed to care about this. > > I would really appreciate some feedback about this from other people. > > Thanks in advance. > > Vikki > _______________________________________________ > 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