Frozen Section Quality · QA Protocol How many micron are you throwing away? Barry September 11, 2026 Uncategorized Every Mohs lab measures something. Turnaround time, stage count, slide volume, redo rate. Almost none of them measure the one number that…
The embedding problem is the whole problem Mohs micrographic surgery is usually described as a surgical technique. It is more accurately a laboratory technique with a surgical front end. The cure rates that justify the procedure — 98% to 99%…
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…
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