Hi,
We have a two alternatives to biopsy bags. I work with mouse tissues, but I bet
you could probably adapt them to human biopsy applications.
The first is the trifold paper towels (you know, the off white rough paper
towels you pull from a dispenser in the ladies room). The nice thing is that
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] biopsy "bags" for processing - alternatives
We also use the nylon bags and have to pay extreme attention when embedding.
We no longer use sponges due to cross contamaination. We use to buy tissue
bags from Fisher and they were similar to the "blue"
, Timothy; Histonet
Subject: Re: [Histonet] biopsy "bags" for processing - alternatives
We never ever allowed the residents to wrap anything. They were instructed to
leave everything in the sample bottle and later the histotech decided what to
do. If there were many small pieces we fi
We also use the nylon bags and have to pay extreme attention when embedding.
We no longer use sponges due to cross contamaination. We use to buy tissue
bags from Fisher and they were similar to the "blue" paper we use from Leica.
I have been looking at tea bag vendors (like we get Lipton an
We never ever allowed the residents to wrap anything. They were instructed to
leave everything in the sample bottle and later the histotech decided what to
do. If there were many small pieces we filtered the sample through a tissue
paper and processed it folded. Sometimes we used empty tea bags
Timothy Morken"
To: "Histonet"
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 10:24:00 AM
Subject: [Histonet] biopsy "bags" for processing - alternatives
All knowing Histonet,
Our grossing staff uses nylon "biopsy bags" to enclose some biopsy specimens.
The embedding staf
All knowing Histonet,
Our grossing staff uses nylon "biopsy bags" to enclose some biopsy specimens.
The embedding staff find them troublesome because when they pull the bags open
they tend to "pop" open and throw the tissue off in all directions. They have
to be very careful opening these. Is t
