[Histonet] "Floaters" in surgical or cytology specimens

[Joe W. Walker, Jr.]

https://academic.oup.com/ajcp/article/136/5/767/1766314

"Floaters represent a potential source of diagnostic error and occur in 0.01% to 1.2% of slides. Pick up of floaters from the water bath appears most common (∼60%). Floaters in only 1 level and mismatch with the specimen tissue type are clues to the extraneous nature of the floater."

Joe W. Walker, Jr. MS, SCT(ASCP)
Anatomical Pathology and Interim Phlebotomy Manager
Rutland Regional Medical Center
160 Allen Street, Rutland, VT 05701
P 802.747.1790  F 802.747.6525
joewalker at rrmc.org, www.rrmc.org

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I am posting this question for a colleague in our Cytology department.     How often do you see floaters on surgical or cytology specimens?    Obviously we would never want to see any type of carryover but is there a standard rate published somewhere that he can reference?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Martha Ward, MT ASCP, QIHC
Manager, Molecular Diagnostics Lab
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
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