Professional Documents
Culture Documents
specimen with
LABORATORY
REQUISITION FORM
PATIENT
INFORMATION should
match requisition form
ACCESSIONING
HISTOPATHOLOGY
TESTS
Chromatin,
Mitochondria, Perenyi's 4% Aqueous 2% HCl 1% NaCl in
Molliflex
Glutaraldehyde Mitotic Fluid Phenol ROH
Regaud's or
figures, Golgi Muller's
bodies, RBC,
& Colloid-
Parafolmaldehyde containing
Early DEHYDRATION
Karnovsky's
degeneratove
Paraformaldehyde Orth's
processes &
Necrosis &
40% Aqueous myelin
Glyoxal
Acid Dioxane Cellusolve /
4% Aqueous Alcohols Acetone
mucopoly-
saccharides Lead
(Diethylene
Dioxide)
Ethylene Glycol
Monoglycol Ether
Triethyl Phosphate Tetrahydrofuran
EXAMINATION BY THE PATHOLOGIST BILLING OF PATIENT
& mucin
Lipids,
Mitochondria, 3% Isopropanol
Cytoplasm, Potassium
Chromatin, & dichromaye
Chromosome
Lead fixatives
PROCESS
PROCESS
Excess Formalin, Osmic Acid, & Chromates Excess Picric Acid Fixatives & Gendre's Excess Mercuric Chloride
CLEARING
Common Urgent CNS tissues, CNS tissues, Embryos & Delicate Skin & Smooth
Clearing biopsies & Lymph nodes, Smooth Muscle, tissues Muscles
Agent Routine Embryos Skin
purposes
DEHYDRATION Clearing Agents
Dioxane Cellusolve /
Alcohols Acetone
(Diethylene Ethylene Glycol Triethyl Phosphate Tetrahydrofuran
Dioxide) Monoglycol Ether
PROCESS
Blood &
Methanol
tissue films
PROCESS
CLEARING
Specifications
1. The slide is taken from the last xylene station, & excess xylene is wiped off the back of the slide
(opposite the specimen) & the edges of the tissue section
Common Urgent CNS tissues, CNS tissues, Embryos & Delicate Skin & Smooth 2. The slide is placed horizontally on a table top, w/ the tissue section facing upwards
Clearing biopsies & Lymph nodes, Smooth Muscle, 3. A drop of mounting medium is placed onto the tissue section
tissues Muscles 4. A cover slip (size appropriate to the tissue section) is then placed onto the tissue section
Agent Routine Embryos Skin - Lower one side of the cover slip onto the surface of the section w/ the other side following
purposes 5. Lower one side of the cover slip onto the surface of the section with the other side following
- In case bubbles are formed; push aside using applicator sticks or a forcep
Clearing Agents 6. Excess mounting medium is wiped or blotted off using tissue paper or gauze
7. The slides are kept flat overnight to dry
PROCESS
IMPREGNATION DPX
GLYCERIN JELLY FARRANT'S WATER GLYCERIN APATHY'S BRUN'S (Dibutyl Phthalate Canada Balsam XAM Clarite
(KAISER'S 1880) MEDIUM MEDIUM FLUID and Xylene)
Specifications
Methods
Specifications MOUNTING MEDIUM
EMBEDDING
Types of Mold
EMBEDDING MEDIUM
3 hours in
TRIMMING
MICROTOMY
SLIDE PREPARATION
PROCESS
STAINING
ROUTINE STAIN CARBOHYDRATES LIPIDS NUCLEIC ACID AND PIGMENTS CONNECTIVE TISSUE NERVOUS TISSUE
PROTEINS
Stains Stains
Stains Stains Stains Stains Stains
Hematoxylin & Eosin Prussian Blue Reaction Reticulin or Nuclear Fast Bielschowsky Method
Periodic Acid Schiff Oil Red O Feulgan Stain (Peris' Reaction) For Ferric Red Stain
Iron
Mucicarmine Stain
Von Kossa Calcium Verhoeff-Van Gieson (VGG)
Stain
Colloidal Iron
Rhodanine Stain
Weigert's Resorcin-Fuchsin
Congo Red Stain
Phosphotungstic Acid
Hematoxylin (PTAH) Stain
PROCESS