[Histonet] uric acid

[Green, Kathy]

We used to do a stain for uric acid, but we've discontinued that and now
the pathologists only scrape it & put it on a slide with a coverslip on
top to determine if there are urate crystals.  My question is, is there
a point to doing a special processing of the tissue from 100% to
paraffin, if when we cut the H&E & put them on the stainer they go thru
lesser alcohols/water anyway?  Since they are doing their checking from
a scarping now instead of the stain would it be appropriate to just
process as normal or is the tissue somehow "preserved" better when we do
the special processing on the tissue processors?  Thanks for any help.

 

Kathy Green, HT

Manager Histology Laboratory

Holy Spirit Hospital

503 N. 21st Street

Camp Hill, PA  17011

kgreen <@t> hsh.org

(717) 763-2930

Blackberry:  (717) 370-1726

 



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