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Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center

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8/21/2012<br />

Organ-specific contraindications: examples<br />

• Too little tissue typically available for banking, or all<br />

available tissue often needed for diagnosis<br />

– Brain tumors<br />

– Testicular tumors, especially germ cell neoplasms<br />

– Many diagnostic biopsies<br />

– Primary melanomas<br />

• Diagnoses where submission of most or all tissue is<br />

needed to substantiate a previous diagnosis or look<br />

for invasive areas<br />

– DCIS, LCIS, atypical endometrial hyperplasia<br />

Organ-specific contraindications: examples<br />

• Necessity to preserve landmarks important for<br />

surgical pathology evaluation<br />

– Capsule for thyroid masses<br />

– Surgical margins<br />

– Stalk for tubulovillous adenomas<br />

– Lymph node capsule in radical neck dissections<br />

• Gross/ microscopic correlation difficulties<br />

• Bony tumors requiring decalcification<br />

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