Act 2: Specimen Accessioning and Gross Examination

Question 1

This is where the samples are received and registered

Answer 1

LAB RECEPTION

Question 2

Number of your casette slides and the stage. Labeling of cassettes are also done here

Answer 2

SPECIMEN PREPARATION

Question 3

Where your Pathologist cuts up the specimen and dictate the macrodescription, Photograph and Annotate the section

Answer 3

GROSSING

Question 4

Where your specimen from the auto Technicon will be immersed into a mold with a liquid paraffin wax. This is for external support so that the tissue will crumble during microtuning or section cutting

Answer 4

EMBEDDING

Question 5

Tissue slices are added with colors or dyes for enhanced visualization

Answer 5

STAINING

Question 6

Stained slides will be coated with transparent mounting medium

Answer 6

MOUNTING

Question 7

Slides will be examined under the microscope by the Pathologist

Answer 7

PATHOLOGIST REPORTING

Question 8

Creations of your final report will happen and signed by your Pathologist

Answer 8

SECRETARY OFFICE

Question 9

Samples are received and registered

Answer 9

LAB RECEPTION

Question 10

Where the tissue passes through various chemicals for fixation, dehydration, clearing and infiltration

Answer 10

AUTOMATIC TISSUE PROCESSOR

Question 11

Specimen are sectioned by giving them a serialm number

Answer 11

SPECIMEN ACCESSIONING

Question 12

Comes with the examination of your cadaver

Answer 12

AUTOPSY PATHOLOGY

Question 13

This is where most of the Histopath specimen are resected from a live person

Answer 13

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY

Question 14

This is where we write all the annotations during gross examination and the microscopic description done by the Pathologists

Answer 14

WORKSHEET

Question 15

What should be the maximum number of hour/s for the specimen to be delivered to the laboratory? TYPE THE NUMBER HOUR

Answer 15

1 HOUR

Question 16

Medtechs can also perform the gross examination in:

Answer 16

APPENDIX, TISSUE SCRAINGS, AND OTHER SMALL SPECIMENS

Question 17

Is intergrated into the grossing system to evaluate the margins of resection in microscopy. Performed in malignancies and specimen is covered with an ink to mark the margins of the specimen

Answer 17

INKING

Question 18

Means inspecting the specimens, describing and measuring the tissue

Answer 18

GROSSING

Question 19

Provides information that aidds the Pathologist in rendering a diagnosis during the microscopic evaluation of the tissue

Answer 19

GROSS EXAMINATION

Question 20

Look for presence of fibrin or pus

Answer 20

EXTERNAL SURFACE

Question 21

Check the condition of mesentery

Answer 21

PERFORATION

Question 22

Check for any localized lesions

Answer 22

WALL

Question 23

Check if the mucosa is hyperemic or ulcerated

Answer 23

MUCOSA

Question 24

Close to surgical margin, one cross section

Answer 24

PROXIMAL 1/3

Question 25

One longitudinal section

Answer 25

DISTAL 1/3