Can we have a little more information first?

- Have the smears been OK previously, and now they are different?
Or have they always been washed out?

- What are you fixing them in? For how long?

- What stain or stains are looking washed out?

- What does "washed out" mean? Pale? Smudgy? Cytoplasm? Nucleus?

Details, please.

Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)
William Beaumont Hospital
Royal Oak, MI 48073
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Lopez Jr., HT(ASCP) (by way of Histonet)" <rlopez@pcnm.com>
To: <HistoNet@pathology.swmed.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 12:23 PM
Subject: bone marrow smears


> We are getting a washed out look on all our smears, the pathologist are
not
> very  happy PLEASE HELP! If anyone can give me ideas,thoughts,advise on
this
> subject.
>     THANK YOU IN ADVANCE
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