Here's what the recently revised CAP checklist says about releasing blocks;
scroll down to Note 2:
**REVISED** 06/17/2010
ANP.12500 Record Retention Phase II
Surgical pathology records and materials are retained for an appropriate period.
NOTE 1: Minimum requirements for surgical pathology,
Hello, Our institution does release blocks, the requirement is that a patient
consent is signed and we have an MTA (Material Transfer Agreement) For the
study and appropriate IRB's in place for the study. It is a lot to set up, but
after this is done for one study any following studies are
Good Morning to All,
We, as often as possible, try not to release blocks for studies or legal cases.
Most studies will let you submit 10-20 unstained recut slides on Plus slides.
On legal cases, we always give recuts if there is enough tissue. When slides
will not suffice, we will send the
