Happy Friday to Everyone,
I have a question about decal for Trephine collected bone marrows. We
currently decal our Trephine collected bone marrow biopsies for 1 hour in
Cal-Rite by Richard Allan, a mixture of formic acid and formaldehyde. Although
this seems to work adequately most of the ti
Miranda,
We use the Dako Artisan for special staining and it performs great. We've been
utilizing ours for about 7 years now. We use the following staining protocols:
Iron
PAS
PAS/D
GMS
Retic
Trichrome
AFB
Warthin Starry
The staining is consistent and reproducible for all of our protocols. T
Hi All,
We are having an internal debate regarding Her2 IHC control tissue in our lab.
We run a MTA (multi tissue array) consisting of 0+, 1+, 2+, and 3+ Her2
staining tissue taken from lumpectomy/resection cases. I'm in the process of
searching for more tissue to use in future control blocks
Good Morning HistoNet,
Would anyone be willing to share what they use for control tissue for MMR
testing? Finding negative expressing tumor is becoming more difficult for us
to find and we're wondering if there is an alternate negative tissue that would
be acceptable.
NordiQC recommends using
Hi Histonetters,
Would anyone be willing to share how they process a Fat Pad aspirate for
Amyloidosis? Our method does not provide a very good result and we're looking
to improve on how we do this.
We collect direct aspirates using an 18 gauge needle and make air dried smears
and stain with C
Hi Histonet,
I apologize if this is being re-posted but I did not see this message on the
daily Histonet Digest so I'm not sure if it ever got posted.
I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their experience with
weekend Histology coverage for smaller Pathology labs? When I say
Hi Martha,
We have been using Beaker for over 2 years now. We created another accession
that identifies cases that are being sent to us as a consult/referral (both
Cyto and Histo). It works pretty well for us.
Scott
Scott A. Lindrud, MLS(ASCP)CT | Histopathology Technical
Specalist/Cytot
What is everyone's take on what needs to be done from a verification/validation
standpoint if you switch diluents for your concentrated antibodies? The CAP
summary of recommendations on the validation IHC antibodies doesn't
specifically mention the changing of diluent as one of the variables.