Hello All, Recently we have had a marked increase in staples and sutures in our tissue that arrives for processing. I have tried to relay to our pathologists and PA's the difficulty in cutting sections and the tissue destruction in getting staples and sutures out once the tissue is processed to paraffin. I was told by some of them that in their experience histology should dealing with this issue. Though my own opinion is this is position is not valid, I've been asked to collect opinions from other histology departments if there are protocols that the grossing individual should be removing the foreign object. Please give me any feedback...Thanks
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