We have stopped cutting unstained slides as physicians have started asking for
the block to be sent for molecular studies.
When we cut unstained slides, there isn't enough of the specimen left for those
studies.
Douglas A. Porter, HT (ASCP)
Pathologist Assistant
Anatomic Pathology IT
Martha Ward at Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
asks:
>>I am posting this question for our Histology manager. For prostate needle
biopsies how many levels and unstained slides are people cutting and also
how long after the case is signed out is everyone keeping the
We cut levels x2 with no unstained. We've never had a problem going back to a
block for additional recuts or specials. We date all our precut IHC slides
(patient or control) with an expiration date of 6 weeks. Slides cut for
histochemistry stains seem to have no expiration. Hope this helps.
I am posting this question for our Histology manager.For prostate needle
biopsies how many levels and unstained slides are people cutting and also how
long after the case is signed out is everyone keeping the unstained slides that
have been cut?
Thanks in advance for everyone's help.
