[Histonet] Labeling Slides

[Morken, Timothy]

Laura, 

We don't hand-write anything on case slides before applying a printed label, if that is what you mean. Hand-written labels are the most error-prone method of labeling. 

We use a TBS slide etcher to batch-print on-slide labels for our on-slide control TMA's and single-tissue control slides. At the microtome we print a label for the case which is applied to the slide when the case tissue is cut and mounted on the slide with control tma/tissue. That is one advantage of using applied labels for cases slides rather than a direct-printed slide label. 

We have run slides through the slide etcher with tissue on them, and had pretty good, though not perfect, results. That is, sometime the tissue section would be damaged. It is not really best practice. It works ok for control tissue since there are a lot of slides , but I would not do it for patient tissue. 

Tim Morken
Pathology Site Manager, Parnassus 
Supervisor, Electron Microscopy/Neuromuscular Special Studies
Department of Pathology
UC San Francisco Medical Center




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From: Bliven, Laura M via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 10:44 AM
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Subject: [Histonet] Labeling Slides

Does anyone label histology slides (H&E's, special stains, or IHC slides) without writing on the slide itself?

If you have a control section on a slide and are placing the patient tissue also on the slide, would you ever run the control slide through a slide printer?

Thanks
Laura

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