RE: Unboxing Some Monsters of the Week
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Errr, would that newly formalin preserved specimen be any good after being completely botched in saline?
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Errr, would that newly formalin preserved specimen be any good after being completely botched in saline?
It's fine, it just got out of its host 2 hours before it came on our department. Formalin penetrates at a rate of 0.4cm per hour anyway. That chunk of tissue will be fine if it's just normal saline used. But it's a different story if it was a breast tissue and malignant because those specimens would often require immunohistochemical stains and you can't stain well when receptors aren't preserved well.