Dear Hazel and Histonetters,

It's http://www.histology.to/links.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Horn, Hazel [SMTP:HornHazelV@exchange.ach.uams.edu]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 20, 2000 10:53 AM
> To:	'Reynolds, David  A'; Jim Ball; histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject:	RE: Embedding.....Peggy's web page
> 
> 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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