https://academic.oup.com/ajcp/article/136/5/767/1766314
"Floaters represent a potential source of diagnostic error and occur in 0.01%
to 1.2% of slides. Pick up of floaters from the water bath appears most common
(∼60%). Floaters in only 1 level and mismatch with the specimen tissue type are
I am posting this question for a colleague in our Cytology department. How
often do you see floaters on surgical or cytology specimens?Obviously we
would never want to see any type of carryover but is there a standard rate
published somewhere that he can reference?
Thanks in advance
