[Histonet] Fw: cause of tissue proccessing problem

[Dorothy Glass]

   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Dorothy Glass <techmana12 at yahoo.com>To: Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwest>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 2:49:01 PM EDTSubject: Fw: cause of tissue proccessing problem
  

   ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Dorothy Glass <techmana12 at yahoo.com>To: Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwest>; Histonetters Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu>Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 2:47:34 PM EDTSubject: cause of tissue proccessing problem
 I have been told something strange from a pathologist, that some tissue in the same block had processing issues. There are conflicting reasoning of what could be the problem.I have been in in Histology as an HTL for over thirty years, and I have never heard this explaination  for tissue not processing correctly within the same cassette.  We are using the blue formalin absorptionpads at the grossing table. Have been for years. Now our new pathologist has said he is seeing blocks with two or more pieces of tissue in them, some fried and some ok in the same block.  My first thoughtwas no way this is happening, either all had processing problem. Not just some of the blocks. They want to say the formalin pads at the grossing station are neutralizing the tissue before process? What does Histonetters think?  Please give suggestions.
Dorothy Glass, HTL (ASCP), IHC