I'm not sure of any of the articles, but one of our techs got this method at the San Antonio NSH long ago and we've been using it ever since.  It does work very well and we have never seen any adverse affect from it!!  We melt the blocks in an 80 degree C. oven, press out the excess paraffin, then place them back in the cassette and into 10% formalin to be reprocessed again from the beginning.

Bonnie McMahill
Histology Supervisor
InCyte Pathology
Spokane, WA


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Laurie Colbert [SMTP:laurie.colbert@huntingtonhospital.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:57 AM
> To:	Scholz, Stephen J.; Histonet (E-mail)
> Subject:	RE: reprocessing tissue
> 
> There was an article in the May 2003 issue of Histologic.  
>  
> I was wondering how many people have tried this method and what the results were.  I had to reprocess some blocks yesterday but was afraid to try this.
>  
> Laurie Colbert
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Scholz, Stephen J. [mailto:Stephen.J.Scholz@osfhealthcare.org]
> 	Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:48 AM
> 	To: Histonet (E-mail)
> 	Subject: reprocessing tissue
> 	
> 	
> 
> 	Hello Histonet: 
> 
> 	Not to long ago there was a posting about reprocessing tissue were you just melt down the blocks and don> '> t  deparaffinize the blocks in xylene before you place them back in formalin.  I check the archives but I can> '> t seem to find it.
> 
> 	Please help. 
> 
> 	Steve 
>