The surgeon reads the margin. But by the time that read happens, a lab technician has already made a dozen decisions that determine whether it’s accurate: how the specimen was mapped, how it was embedded, how the block was sectioned,…
Every re-cut costs something: tissue you may not get back, time the surgeon spends waiting, and a second (or third) round of freezing, sectioning, and staining before you have a readable margin. Most labs treat re-cuts as a sectioning problem…
A frozen section is only as good as the specimen mount underneath it. When a chuck doesn’t seat correctly, or a specimen disc doesn’t lock into the cryostat head the way it should, the effects show up downstream — in…
“MohsPros Tech” Procedure and Certification
