processing fetal brains

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From:Sharon Allen <SAllen@exchange.hsc.mb.ca>
To:"'histonet@pathology.swmed.edu'" <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
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Hi,
Does anyone have a fixative recipe for processing fetal brains, that will
firm up the tissue.  We process approx. 75 to 100 fetal brains a year and
find them very soft making them difficult to gross and cut. Now we are using
the standard Normal Buffered Formalin.

Thanks
Sharon Allen
Neuropathology Section
Health Science Centre
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada



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