Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center
Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center
Tissue Banking Overview: Washington University Medical Center
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8/21/2012<br />
“Adjacent normal” tissue<br />
This case of<br />
metastatic carcinoma<br />
to the liver showed<br />
inflammatory<br />
infiltrates in portal<br />
tracts in the adjacent<br />
non-neoplastic liver<br />
tissue<br />
Discrepancies between stated and actual<br />
specimen dx: commercial samples<br />
• This specimen was<br />
billed by a commercial<br />
tissue provider as<br />
normal lung (H&E,<br />
200x)<br />
• This specimen was<br />
billed by a commercial<br />
tissue provider as<br />
normal pancreas (H&E,<br />
200x)<br />
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