--- Victoria Baker  wrote:
> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 05:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Victoria Baker 
> Subject: Re: Embedding
> To: Melissa Jensen 
> 
> When I worked in derm lab we had techs who more or
> less specialized in embedding (something today not
> very often heard of).  Embedding everything straight
> was more or less the norm, but, when you have a
> specimen from the foot, toe, finger or another area
> where the epidermis is thick or very cornified, we
> did
> embed them on a slant.  Just to avoid chunking out
> and
> a cutters wrath.  Corns, warts, certain keratotic
> samples and toe nails (those we hadn't processed for
> plastics) all were embedded on a slant.  No
> chunking,
> even smooth sections and many times one or two folds
> at most.  We did soak our blocks in either water or
> a
> 1.5% ammonia solution as well.  Skin is tricky
> because
> it incorporates so many different textures so
> cutting
> it becomes an art unto itself.  
> 
> Vikki Baker

> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     From: Nita Searcy
> [mailto:NSEARCY@swmail.sw.org]
> >     Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 2:26 PM
> >     To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> >     Subject: Embedding
> > 
> > 
> >     I have a question regarding "proper
> > embedding"---I have been practicing for 35 yrs.,
> am
> > at new position and funny thing, I do things
> > incorrectly---
> > 
> > 
> >     Anyway, correct embedding--epithelium from
> skin
> > - "all going same way" but I embed on a slant not 
> > in a straight row. The knife blade hits one piece
> at
> > a time not the entire 
> >     "straight " line.
> > 
> >     Glenda Hoye and the instructors- do you have a
> > reference?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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