[Histonet] Re: question about coating blocks with paraffin for storage

[Rene J Buesa]

But I did in Cuba, and there were also "FFPE" tissue eating cockroaches (although perhaps not now, they probably have died of lack of food!).
  René J.

Robert Richmond <RSRICHMOND <@t> aol.com> wrote:
  The late great R.D. Lillie, who spent his later years at LSU, pointed
out that in the warm wet climate of Louisiana if you didn't seal your
paraffin blocks the cockroaches would eat the tissue out of them. I've
never seen this, but I've never practiced in Louisiana either.

Bob Richmond
Samurai Pathologist
Knoxville TN

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