RE: Processing protocol for breast specimens

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From:"Hinton, Sandy" <sahinton@utmb.edu>
To:"'DboydHT@aol.com'" <DboydHT@aol.com>, Allison_Scott@hchd.tmc.edu, histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
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Debbi,
Has this process had any negative effects on your IHC procedures?
Thanks

Sandy Hinton
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Chief Technologist, Surgical Pathology and Autopsy Services
Phone (409) 747-2488
FAX (409) 772-4676
sahinton@utmb.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	DboydHT@aol.com [SMTP:DboydHT@aol.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 08, 2000 7:55 PM
> To:	Allison_Scott@hchd.tmc.edu; histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject:	Re: Processing protocol for breast specimens
> 
> Allison,
>      We use an Alcoholic formalin.  The breast are cut and processed the
> same 
> day.
> As soon as we get the breast we put alcoholic formalin on it and after the
> 
> path. sections it we return it to alcoholic formalin.  The last person to 
> leave in the afternoon puts them on the processor.  If the specimen comes
> in 
> later in the day we add a small amount of heat by putting the cassettes in
> a 
> Tupperware bowel and placing it on the mechanical stirrer.  By stirring
> and 
> heating you have a free exchange of fluids and the heat helps with 
> penetration.
> Debbie Boyd
> SRMC
> Hist. Super.



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