Does anyone have experience with using the deparaffinization feature?
Currently we are deparaffinizing by hand. Any problems with the stain
quality or other issues?
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The blue pads shouldn't introduce artifacts if the tissue is properly fixed
before placing the tissue on them.
One service I worked on marked the specimens on the blue pad with a bit of
safranin O solution (the microbiology Gram stain counterstain - don't use
eosin, because it's fluorescent).
Doe
Does anyone have a positive HMBE-1 tissue block they would be willing to
send me? Our only block has been exhausted.
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Charles Riley HT(ASCP)CM
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Hal Hawkins wrote: "Way back when I was at Emory, the GI docs used to place
their biopsies on freshly cut slices of cucumber. The cucumber slices were
fixed and processed with the specimen, cut nicely, and support the tissue in a
perfectly flat orientation." We also did that for GI biopsies dur
We, too, had the same problem. The GI rooms were cutting telfa pads so they
would fit in the formalin containers, and the pads were falling apart. We
finally asked that they just put the specimens directly into the formalin. That
way we can decide in the gross room, the best way to submit the
Have they tried not using any pads? Our biopsies (GI, Needle Core,
Prostate etc.) are just in the formalin specimen bottle. We don't have
any issues with the "free floating" specimens. I have worked at several
labs and never seen specimens routinely submitted on a gauze or pad.
Just a thought.
