Revisiting the Clinical Pathology Lab’s Problem of Floaters and Other Contaminates

Apr 19, 2011 | Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

As automation transforms the manual work processes in the histopathology laboratory, “floaters” may become a thing of the past Any histotechnologist and pathologist familiar with the manual work processes commonly in use in histopathology laboratories knows about “floaters.” These are the pesky artifacts that are a consequence of the common practice of manually processing tissue through the series of H&E linear baths required for the proper staining of these samples prior to analysis by...
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