[Histonet] Specimen Accessioning .....

[Marcum, Pamela A]

Most places I have been use the block as numeric and the part as alpha; 15SR1235 A (part) 1 (block) and etc.  I have not seen it cause an issue and if we go beyond Z as the alpha then we double back to an AA for the part and so on.  We just hope a resident doesn't go off track to often with the AA to whatever letter.  

Pam Marcum 
UAMS

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From: Cartun, Richard [mailto:Richard.Cartun at hhchealth.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2015 2:39 PM
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Subject: [Histonet] Specimen Accessioning .....

We have always accessioned specimens with multiple parts as 1, 2, 3, etc. and the corresponding paraffin blocks as A, B, C, etc.  We are in the process of changing this to letters for the different specimen parts and numbers for the blocks.  For those of you who do it this way, have you encountered any problems?  For example, if the specimen arrives and the different parts are numbered, do you simply convert them to letters?  Thank you.

Richard

Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
Director, Histology & Immunopathology
Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital
80 Seymour Street
Hartford, CT  06102
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