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Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center

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8/21/2012<br />

Specimen Storage<br />

• Ultralow mechanical freezers (-80°C)<br />

Cheaper (Long Term)<br />

Error Prone<br />

Less Stable<br />

• Liquid nitrogen (-130°C)<br />

More Stable<br />

Less Error Prone<br />

More Expensive<br />

• Vacuum sealed (4°C)<br />

Paraffin Blocks / Slides<br />

No Data<br />

Gross procurement of tissues for research banking<br />

‣ Academic hospitals with research tissue repositories<br />

often derive many internal specimen acquisitions from<br />

their site's surgical pathology service<br />

‣ Typically, such acquisitions come from appropriately<br />

consented tissue discards sampled from surgical<br />

resections<br />

‣<strong>Tissue</strong>, if not banked, would otherwise be thrown<br />

away since it is not needed for clinical diagnosis<br />

‣ Surgical pathology has patient care as its primary<br />

mission, so competing needs for tissue inevitable arise:<br />

preserving adequate tissue for clinical diagnosis is key<br />

‣ Involvement of trained pathology personnel is<br />

important<br />

McDonald SA, Chernock RD, Leach TA, Kahn AA, Yip JH, Rossi J, Pfeifer JD. Procurement of<br />

human tissues for research banking in the surgical pathology laboratory: prioritization practices at<br />

<strong>Washington</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Center</strong>. In press, Biopreservation and Biobanking, 2011.<br />

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