Hi kdea...@hotmail.com,
What likely is occurring but you didn’t mention in the thread is that your
friend is using alkaline phosphatase based detection, which, by itself can
react with kidney tissue. This likely explains why your friend is getting
strong kidney staining and weak melan-a staining.
Is it possible that it is hematoxylin precipitate?
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Is it on all slides or just certain antibodies?
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What instrumentation are you using. Have you talked to your vendor?
Donna Willis
Anatomic Pathology Manager
Baylor Scott&White Health
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What instrumentation are you using. Have you talked to your vendor?
Donna Willis
Anatomic Pathology Manager
Baylor Scott&White Health
Baylor University Medical Center
3500 Gaston Ave|Dallas, Texas 75246
214-820-2465 office|214-725-6184 mobile
-Original Message-
From: Karen Heckford CA-
Good Morning,
I have recently developed a problem with contamination of some kind on my
IHC slides.
The contamination is black clumps and lays on top of the tissue. I have
been told it is bacteria but the Pathologist and I kind of doubt that. I
cannot get a good picture of it to show. It may no
Hi Chris,
At our institution, we're currently utilizing CoPath Automatic Barcoding and
Tracking (AB&T). Similar to Vantage, each step of the workload is tracked from
accessioning → grossing → embedding→ microtomy→ staining→ QC (or case assembly)
and then delivery to pathologist. For every cas
Chris,
We have been tracking blocks since we went live with Vantage over 10 years ago.
Roche (Ventana then) built a custom program for us to use at that time because
they had not yet implemented it into Vantage. In the past 2 years Roche has
updated their software to allow documenting this inf
