What you describe as a possible scenario is absolutely possible.If your PT does
not "want to hear" about it, suggest she gets a "hearing aid" or to study
something about histotechnology or even better yet, pay attention to what a
professional on the subject (you) has to say about it. You would never dare to
question her diagnosis, why would she question yours on this subject?René
On Friday, March 31, 2017 9:11 AM, T H via Histonet
<histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
Good Morning,
I have a pathologist that is not happy with the fixation on some of our LEEP
specimens. She swears its histology doing something to the specimen to cause
the tissue to look unfixed on only "part" of the LEEP specimens (all the same
client specimens). She claims we must be diluting our formalin to cause this
issue or "something". We mentioned maybe it was on the clients end not placing
them in 10% formalin right away, she wouldn't hear of it.
Let me give you some back ground on how our process works. Our clients send us
all our specimens to us via Overnight FedEx or UPS in 10% formalin they will
then they sit in 10% formalin in-house until the processors are started around
3pm and sits an additional 5 hours in 10% formalin on the processor before the
processor actually starts. That being said the fixation process has had a
pretty good start before we ever even touch it.
My question is, and I thought I had read this in the past is, when a specimen
is left out prior to fixation and lying on a absorbent surface such as a paper
towel, won't the area of the tissue touching the absorbent surface begin the
disintegration processes faster in that exact area then the rest of the
specimen? Or if you have any other suggestion on what might be happening to
only "certain" specimens would be great as well.
Thanks for your help!
Tim
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