[Histonet] automated special stains and control tissue

2016-08-25 Thread Gagnon, Eric via Histonet
Agree with your opinion re: including special stain control tissue and patient tissue on same slide, Curt. Assuming you're referring to FFPE tissue, there is little if any chance of the control tissue contaminating the patient tissue on the same slide, thus causing a 'false positive' in the

[Histonet] automated special stains and control tissue

2016-08-15 Thread Curt via Histonet
Re: automated special stainers, are you all running the patient tissue with a control on it, like IHC? we're wrestling with the idea of a control on each slide or a batch control... the pathologist wants a batch control, thinks the control may contaminate the patient tissue (PASF for example).