I’m a histology workflow consultant that visits many AP laboratories
each year. Almost every laboratory has a different retention policy.
The average of most laboratories is to hold onto unstained slides for
three weeks after final sign out. Typically the unstained slide can be
held for a long
Decal Cal Stat company was sold to Stat Lab Medical Products. Last year
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I'm with Tim Morken on this one. The variability of antigenicity in storage is
so wide open, and there really is no recent data, so we just make a point of
educating our techs on not wasting tissue/levels during sectioning. If the
techs feel that the residual tissue in the block is in danger
Paula, since it is variable we strive to not have unstained slides. We had kept
them indefinitely, then when storage was overwhelming us we reduced it to 2
months maximum. Now we require request for unstained to be ordered in the
system and delivered to the pathologist. We do not hold any in
Help! For years we have used Decal-Stat for decalcifying our bone marrow
biopsies with good results. For the past month we have been having problems
with tissue loss and morphological damage with these specimens following
decalcification. Unfortunately, this was just brought to my attention.
