[Histonet] specimen submission pads

[Dessasau III, Evan]

We use a product from EMS called Cellsafe biopsy insert CAT.62327-10.  I try to remember to give them to the Fellows on the transplant team when doing kidney needle biopsies.  They do not fit in the EZ Load cassettes but I keep other cassettes which hold the insert just fine.
E-van

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From: Hawkins, Hal K. via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 3:08 PM
To: Linda Margraf; histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: Re: [Histonet] specimen submission pads


Way back when I was at Emory, the GI docs used to place their biopsies on freshly cut slices of cucumber.  The cucumber slices were fixed and processed with the specimen, cut nicely, and support the tissue in a perfectly flat orientation.  I discourage use of the standard blue gauze pads because of the distortion they cause in fresh tissue samples, the notorious triangular holes.

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From: Linda Margraf via Histonet [histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 11:46 AM
To: histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: [Histonet] specimen submission pads

Hi Histonetters,
We are having trouble in the Gross room,  removing small specimens from the pads/gauze that OR personnel put them on which they then immerse in formalin.  We thought the gauze was challenging to remove tiny specimens from but have found that the Telfa pads the OR is now using come apart in the fixative and are even more challenging to work with. The GI lab uses sponges but they would be too small for the usual size containers the OR send us.  Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
Linda M
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