Yes; we run IHC tests everyday on our Bonds with Leica's "Red" detection kit.
You do need to be careful when dehydrating the slides prior to coverslipping
since the chromogenic product is not as stable as DAB.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD
Well stated Tony, and thank for all this useful information. I am hopeful that
we can get expiration dates overturned here in the United States. In the past,
I have recommended a "Stability Guarantee" date to replace the "Expiration
Date". After that date passes it would be the responsibility
I apologize someone contacted me several weeks ago about the availability
of Pneumocystis control tissue, and I misplaced his name and contact
information. Please contact me again if you are still in need of control
tissue.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Mar
I'm very sad to learn of her passing. She was a remarkable person. I didn't
know her well, but I always enjoyed speaking with her at meetings and learning
from her. Many years ago I bought her entire collection of bound
"Histotechnology" journals.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director
I have never used microwave drying for IHC slides. I worry that if there is
water trapped underneath the tissue section it might cause destruction of the
tissue section if it is rapidly heated and "pops". You could run a
"side-by-side" comparison and see if you notice a difference. Also, how
We no longer release any tissue to a patient that comes to our Pathology
Laboratory in formalin, and our Legal Department supports this decision. I
know that our "Labor & Delivery" Unit has released placentas to patients;
however, if the specimen doesn't come to Pathology, we don't get involved
Hi Martha:
We are using type-specific monoclonals from BioSB (Santa Barbara, CA). They
also sell a cocktail of the two antibodies which is what we use for screening.
Rarely, do we get requests for type-specific identification.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Mart
Hello everyone:
I'm wonder what your protocol is for cutting formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded
bone marrow core biopsy specimens? Do you cut a limited number of slides
upfront and then go back to the block if the pathologist requests histochemical
stains or immunohistochemical tests? We are i
Interesting . I will definitely check this out. I know I'm "Old School",
but I have never "personalized" the diluent for preparing antibody dilutions.
We have always used just one diluent for all the antibodies that we have run
over my 43-year career.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
D
I would recommend waiting at least 2 weeks after the case is signed-out in case
additional testing needs to be performed, especially if the specimen contains
cancer. And, I would always make sure that you leave representative tissue in
the block meaning don't consume the entire specimen when yo
How long are you fixing surgical tissue specimens from COVID-19 positive
patient's before tissue processing? I know that the CDC is recommending "72"
hours for autopsy tissues, but, to me, that seems excessive for surgical
pathology specimens. Any information that you can share on this subject
This is a very difficult target to detect. I was told recently by a vendor
that one needs to use prolonged, very aggressive antigen retrieval (pressure
cooker with high pH buffer) to get consistent results. Also, the type of
cancer may influence your success (colon vs. thyroid vs. melanoma).
Are you using some form of antigen retrieval? In addition to what has been
discussed previously, antigen retrieval using heat (HIER) can cause tissue loss
especially collagen.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic
Proteom
Question - What has been your experience with Hologic's Cellient instrument
for preparing cell block specimens? I understand that it is very good for
pauci-cellular specimens. However, I am concerned about using these
preparations for immunohistochemical and DNA/RNA testing. Thank you!
Rich
Looking at an article in Histopathology (January 2018) on PLAG1 IHC testing,
the authors used clone "3B7" (Novus Biologicals in Littleton, CO) on the Bond
Max IHC platform form.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic
Proteo
I agree with Joe. We used to use ETOH for cell blocks, but stopped using it
when we started doing IHC biomarker testing on these specimens. Alcohol is
good for some proteomic targets, but can be a disaster for others. We also fix
all of our cell block specimens that are collected in saline or
We are currently running RNAScope for HPV and Albumin on our Leica Bond IIIs.
It's a wonderful technology!
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Dir
What are people doing to ensure that there is no tissue carry-over on
instruments between cases when grossing? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Program
I'm curious; how do you code major (complex) skin resections that also include
soft tissue? These cases often have 10-30 paraffin blocks and lots of H&E
slides. I'm thinking that they could be coded 88307 (simple resection) or
88309 (complex resection). I found out that our Dermatopathologist
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Subject: [External] Re: [Histonet] SDHB IVD antibody
Cell Marque offers an excellent SDHB ra
Cell Marque offers an excellent SDHB rabbit monoclonal (clone EP288) that we
use in our laboratory. However, it is not an "IVD".
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection
We had several cases last Friday that showed "optically clear nuclei"
(primarily lymphocytes) on H&E. Have you seen this artifact and, if so, what
is it due do? I will be happy to e-mail a photo to anyone interested. Thank
you as always for your help.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Dire
We use internal control blocks that we prepare from extra tumor tissue that we
process after the case has been signed out. However, this is getting more and
more difficult for us since most breast tumors are smaller now when detected
(and that's a good thing!) which results in the entire tumor
We use the Roche/Ventana p16 antibody (clone E6H4(tm)) on the Leica Bond Max.
We are having a difficult time trying to order the antibody. Can someone
verify the catalog number (705-4713) for me? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Imm
We are preparing to install a Leica "Bond Stain Interface" which will allow us
to move away from having to print slide labels manually for our IHC slides. I
am not an expert on this so I am looking for help. We have "5" Bond IHC
instruments that will be hooked-up to the controller; however, we
Doesn't sound like a fixation issue to me. Could the tissue be drying out
before it's placed in formalin? Also, are these specimens inked for assessment
of margins? I've seen ink interfere with immunoreactivity.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, M
If the tumor is ER/PR negative the first thing I do is to look for an internal
positive control (immunoreactive benign breast epithelium). In my experience,
the majority of these cases have internal positive controls to validate the
negative ER/PR results. When I don't see internal positive co
For those of you doing clinical IHC testing, have you been able to automate the
billing of IHC (88342 vs. 88341) or do you still manual bill? Our IT staff
wants to build-in a "88342" and a ""88341" for every antibody that we run and
then have the pathologist select the appropriate one for billi
Hello everyone. Is anyone doing IHC testing for "GD2" on FFPE tissue? Thank
you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
If you are doing IHC testing for IDH1 here in the United States, do you get the
antibody (clone HO9) directly from Dianova in Germany or is there a US
distributor? I did try HistoBiotech, but they no longer carry Dianova
antibodies. Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, His
Is anyone doing PCR testing for Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme Disease) from
formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue? Thank you!
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Pro
For those labs that are performing IDH1 IHC testing on FFPE tissue, which clone
are you using and where do you get it? Thank you.
Happy Holidays to everyone.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology/Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Dir
How long can tissue remain in glutaraldehyde before EM testing is performed?
Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic P
Does anyone do the Alizarin Red histochemical stain for calcium in clinical
samples? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, An
It appears that the presence of water, both endogenously and exogenously, plays
a central role in the loss of antigenicity in stored unstained slides (see
reference below). Labs that are experiencing significant loss of
immunoreactivity in their unstained slides should check their tissue proces
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.
We use a RTU (clone EP310) from Cell Marque on the Leica Bond. Antigen
retrieval is "high pH" HIER for 20 minutes.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Ass
I know I asked this question before, but I can't find my notes. If you provide
a diagnostic consultation on pathology slides, do you need a separate report
with a new "Date-of-Service" (the date that the consult is requested) for
reporting and billing purposes? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W.
We are using the "ASCO/CAP" guidelines for all cancer resection specimens.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology and the Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology and
Morphologic Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
De
We file our unstains separately and then discard after one year.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospita
University of Minnesota
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Cartun, Richard via Histonet
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We are looking for a good antibody to detect Beta-Amyloid in formalin-fixed,
paraffin-embedded human brain tissue. Any recommendations? We have been using
the
We are looking for a good antibody to detect Beta-Amyloid in formalin-fixed,
paraffin-embedded human brain tissue. Any recommendations? We have been using
the clone "6E10" which we purchased from Signet Laboratories back in 2001.
Thank you!
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histo
Yes, we've had excellent results using their clone "D4D6". We use it at 1:50
dilution on the Leica Bond Max following high-pH retrieval. Please contact me
directly if you require additional information.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopa
Diane Cadorette-Hall.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT 06102
(86
We switched from acid decal to EDTA recently; primarily for molecular testing.
We are starting to see some excellent results. At first, we were not decaling
long enough (EDTA decalcification is a very slow process). We also use the
Leica Bond Max and we have not had any problems with tissue l
I am forwarding this exciting meeting announcement to the Histonet Community.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Har
Anyone working in Anatomic Pathology and using mass spectrometry for protein
analysis on cancer cells? Thank you!
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assi
We are now using Epitomics' clone EPR6602 with great results. I don't know if
it's offered as a "RTU", but I would check with Cell Marque or abcam; they
carry Epitomics' clones
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Prot
Anyone using ClearRite (xylene replacement) for tissue processing? If so,
what's been your experience? Any effect on IHC or molecular testing? Thank
you!
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Dir
We are thinking of changing the way we report consult testing (IHC, Flow
Cytometry, and Molecular) for our system hospitals. Instead of accessioning
the consult case here, the requesting hospital would create a
"Procedure/Addendum" in Sunquest CoPath for their specimen and then send us the
uns
If you do this test, where do you get your antibody? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospita
Do you have a Pathology Residency Program? If so, good luck with a policy that
states that requests will be sent out in 48 hours. Our policy is 3-5 business
days once we receive the request. Having said that, most requests are
processed in 2-3 days.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Direct
I know this question is somewhat out of our domain, but are any of you engaged
in "Next Generation Sequencing" (NGS) testing on patient FFPE cancer specimens?
If so, what's your experience with insurance pre-certification and
reimbursement? Thank you as always.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS,
I'm wondering if any of you take a patient's credit card to pay for the FedEx
shipping of pathology slides when they request that their slides be sent to
another hospital or medical institution? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immuno
What do you do when you receive a pathology consult and it is missing an ICD-10
code? I am being told that we cannot accession it until we get a code from the
submitting doctor's office, and that we cannot add one. Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin
Anyone out there doing IHC testing for GAB1 and YAP1 to subtype
medulloblastoma? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatom
I strongly discourage patients from taking their tissue out of the hospital.
Once the specimen in placed in formalin it becomes a bio-hazard. We will
release certain specimens for burial; however, the patient (or family) must
contact a funeral home or mortuary to pick-up the specimen, and they
Since you only have 1 slide I would recommend following your regular protocol
that you use for formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue. I would use heat
retrieval if that's what you use for FFPE tissue. However, if you use enzyme
digestion on FFPE tissue I would "not" digest your cytospin sli
Can anyone recommend a good anti-Serotonin antibody for diagnostic morphologic
proteomics testing (aka, Immunohistochemistry)? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen
Is anyone doing clinical IHC testing for BRG1/SMARCA4? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospi
Our policy is to not release any specimen that comes to pathology in formalin.
If the patient is adamant about getting their specimen they will have to make
arrangements with a funeral home to collect the specimen, and the appropriate
release must be signed. Hardware and other medical devices
Is anyone doing IHC testing for Aldehyde Dehydrogenase 1 (ALDH1)? Evidently,
it is a prognostic maker used for breast CA.
Happy Holidays everyone!
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Bi
Has anyone ever heard of testing a tissue or body fluid sample for "accrued
aluminum"? We have a child who has had multiple immunizations and the parents
wanted the specimen tested. Unfortunately, none of this was communicated to us
prior to the procedure being performed. Thank you and "Happy
Since we are now using EPIC we will no longer be providing (mailing) hard-copy
pathology reports to our clients effective January 1, 2017. Our healthcare
providers now have access to all lab results and pathology reports in EPIC.
Physicians can also be set-up for auto-faxing or can call client
Can you provide more details about the uneven immunoreactivity? Are the
negative cells located at the periphery of the specimen or are the negative and
positive tumor cells mixed together throughout the specimen?
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD
Yes, I will send you the procedure that we use.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Stre
I can only speak to IHC billing. My staff (now 2 people) in our IHC Lab does
all the technical IHC billing manually. We average about 3,500 billable IHC
tests per month now. The volume used to be higher, but our healthcare system
sold most of our outreach business.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun
Do physicians' offices need to have procedures/policies "on-site" regarding
formalin if they put patient biopsy specimens into the small formalin
containers? What about formalin spill kits? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopath
Microtomy is so important, but often over-looked. You might try giving the
paraffin block(s) to different people and have them all cut H&Es, and then have
your pathologist compare them. If everyone's sections are suboptimal, then the
problem is with fixation and/or processing.
Richard
Richar
Yes, the CAP now has a PT survey for HPV, EBV, and Kappa/Lambda in situ
hybridization (ISH).
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatom
Do you participate in the CAP's PT program for ER/PR and HER2 IHC testing? If
so, you can have all your pathologists who interpret ER/PR/HER2 IHC testing
score the PT TMAs, complete the worksheets, and then you can establish their
interobserver variability. If not, pull 20 cases where ER/PR/HE
Anyone doing IHC testing for "Ataxia-telangiectasia-mutated protein" expression
on FFPE tissue? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant D
Our ancient "SoLow" -80 degree C. freezer died over the weekend. What do you
recommend as a replacement? Do you prefer a chest vs. stand-up? We use it
primarily for tissue storage. Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology &
Are any of you an expert with C4d IHC in myocardial biopsy tissue? We had a
specimen this week that showed a pattern of immunoreactivity that I am not
familiar with and I need to find out if this represents a specific disease
process. Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, H
What are people fixing testicular biopsies in to evaluate infertility? In the
past, I believe fixatives such as Zenker's and Bouin's were used for this
purpose since they enhance nuclear detail. Obviously, those fixatives can no
longer be used. Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
We purchase the antibody from Ventana and run it on our Bond Max platforms.
During re-optimization, we found we could dilute it 1:10 (15 minutes) following
"H2" (high pH) retrieval and still get excellent results.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology and the Martin M. Berman,
Make that "Sunquest" CoPath ..
Richard
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:09 PM
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] Question - CoPath
We will be switching f
We will be switching from Cerner CoPath to Sunrise CoPath in the near future
(part of our Epic conversion). Is there anyone using Sunrise CoPath that uses
a prostate diagram in their report to demonstrate the absence or presence of
cancer in the different quadrants? Thank you.
Richard
Richar
I have always maintained that the "Date-of-Service" for a pathology consult is
the date that the pathology consult is initiated or requested. Is that correct?
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
D
We provide on-site assessment of the renal tissue obtained in Ultrasound, both
at our main hospital and at our Children's hospital across the street. I
handle probably 95% of the biopsies; I have two pathology colleagues (MDs) that
handle the other 5% when I am not here. Occasionally, a reside
I have a validation file for ER, PR, and HER2 IHC testing on decalcified bone
specimens with metastatic breast cancer. I compared the results with other
specimens from the same patient (usually the primary breast cancer) that were
not decalcified.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director,
If the request is received more than "30" days from the original
date-of-service, we re-accession the specimen, and bill and report the test
result(s) under the new accession number. The requesting MD now becomes the
submitting MD.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The
Years ago, I obtained a metal scribe for etching glass slides, but I can't
remember which Histology company I got it from. Any suggestions? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director
I am curious to hear which clone people are using to detect IgG4-positive
plasma cells in FFPE tissue. Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assi
Hi everyone. Which antibody (clone) are you using for the immunohistochemical
detection of IgG4 in FFPE tissue? I just found out that the clone that we were
using is no longer available. Thank you!
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathol
Dear Histology Colleagues:
I need your help once again. Our healthcare system is in the process of
switching over to Sunquest CoPath; we currently have Cerner CoPath now. I have
been told that when using their bar code and tracking system one cannot
generate unstained slides (for possible his
It's been a long time since I have sent a paraffin tissue block out of the
country. Can someone bring me up-to-date on requirements for shipping paraffin
tissue blocks overseas (specifically Germany). I believe FedEx will be used
for the shipping. Thank you!
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, P
Nancy Schmitt from Dubuque, IA asked about control tissue for H. pylori. I
have tried e-mailing her, but my e-mail was returned as "Undeliverable".
Nancy, please contact me.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteo
Thanks to all who responded to my question on patient identifiers for prostate
biopsies.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic
Proteomics Laboratory
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic P
What are people accepting for the "two" identifiers on the small formalin
bottles that are used for prostate biopsy specimens? Can you accept the
patient's initials in place of the full name? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopa
Dear Amy:
Some of the companies doing molecular testing will pay you a fee for "specimen
procurement/handling" since they realize the burden that these requests put on
us. I suggest calling the company(s) that you deal with and see if you can
work something out with them. And, you're absolute
How many of you working in "hospital-based" pathology laboratories run IHC on
weekends? Thank you.
Richard
Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & Immunopathology
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs
Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology
Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartfo
There are several studies (one listed below) that have addressed the issue of
fixation past the "recommended" 72 hour maximum. In my opinion, the science
behind these fixation recommendations is "weak" at best. In my own experience,
I have seen no problem whatsoever going well past 72 hours of
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