RE: Embedding.....Peggy's web page

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From:"Horn, Hazel" <HornHazelV@exchange.ach.uams.edu>
To:"'Reynolds, David A'" <dareynolds@anmc.org>, Jim Ball <histo007@hotmail.com>, histonet@Pathology.swmed.edu
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Peggy,
I would love to have the link to your web page!   
Hazel

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Reynolds, David  A [SMTP:dareynolds@anmc.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 19, 2000 03:46 PM
> To:	Jim Ball; histonet@Pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject:	RE: Embedding
> 
> "Theory and Practice of Histotechnology" by Dezna Sheehan and Barbara
> Hrapchak has a section on embedding with illustrations of right and wrong
> ways to do things, plus I'm sure Peggy Wenk has adequate resource
> information, since she runs the best hitology school around.  She also has
> a
> web page with plenty of educational material.  Also check the NSH website.
> 
> 
> Dave Reynolds, HT(ASCP)
> Alaska Native Medical Center
> Anchorage, Alaska  99508
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Jim Ball [SMTP:histo007@hotmail.com]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, April 18, 2000 11:51 AM
> > To:	histonet@Pathology.swmed.edu
> > Subject:	Embedding
> > 
> > Is there any literature on the market that shows how different tissues 
> > should be orientated in a block for proper cutting. I have been a tech
> for
> > 
> > 25 years and have always taken great pride in having tissue orientated
> and
> > 
> > embedded properly. The hospital I am currently working for the techs
> seem
> > to 
> > only be interested in packing the molds with the as much tissue as
> > possible, 
> > not to mention the chaotic arrangement of the tissue. I had only
> > experienced 
> > this phenomenon before with pathologist trying to over fill cassettes. I
> 
> > really believe some one should put out a chart showing a properly cast
> > skin 
> > sample, a gall bladder, a colon specimen, etc. I'am sure you have all
> seen
> > 
> > the charts they use at repair garage when they bring out one of you
> spark 
> > plugs and compare it with a plug on a chart and tell you your motor
> needs 
> > rebuilt.
> >      I can stand there all day and argue with them, but I would first
> like
> > 
> > to have some visual as well as written evidence to back my arguments. I
> > seem 
> > to remember the AFIP manual having some drawings of how tissue should be
> 
> > arranged, but if anyone has any other sources they wold like to share I 
> > would be in your debt. I won,t go in to the practice of putting the
> blocks
> > 
> > on ice trays and leaving them in the freezer for any where from 15 to 30
> 
> > minutes before retrieving for sectioning. Should any one wish to do a
> > chart 
> > I can furnish a ton of pictures on how not to embedd tissue.
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