Pathology Associates Of Lexington, P.A.

Primitive sampling #2

Photo of biopsy "wad" in the plastic cassette.

One or more loose biopsies, loose in the cassette, allow biopsy-fragment loss amongst the paraffin at embedding time. There is no orientation at all!! These cores are subsequently removed from the last paraffin wax processing bath and dropped as a cluster into the metal embedding boat...again, as a "wad", totally unoriented.
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