Jennifer MacDonald asked: >>At a local lab when a pathologist orders a
PAS diastase the histotechnicians do just one slide with diastase.
They do not do an undigested slide. How would the pathologist know if
the digested slide had a glycogen to begin with? Am I over thinking
this?<<
If I want an u
It depends on the tissue-component to be shown. If you just want to see
tissue-architecture or eg. in liver mallory-bodies and glycogen doesn't play
a role, one slide would be sufficient.
Gudrun
On 3/15/2012 1:47 AM, Jennifer MacDonald wrote:
> Hi All,
> At a local lab when a pathologist orders
I disagree that two patient slides are needed. What is needed for diagnosis is
one patient slide with digestion, and two control slides, one with and one
without. If the control slide shows adequate digestion of the glycogen and the
other control slide shows adequate PAS positivity, the patholog
