SURGICAL PATHOLOGY

GENITOURINARY PATHOLOGY

• Biopsy cassettes used for processing of tissue…this translates into diminished risk of losing tissue in a sponge and no sponge artifact to interfere with reading the final slide. 
• Tissue is limited to 3 biopsy cores per cassette (easier to embed all tissue in one plane…means that tissue is not lost during cutting and is examined in its entirety by the pathologist).
• Special cut protocol (6 levels on 3 slides) allow for more tissue to be examined.
• Over read of all prostate core biopsies.
• Average turn-around-time for all prostate core biopsies in 2010 was 1.35 days.
• Customized requisitions for use with CoreDishes™, upon request.
• Customized reports which may include predicted probabilities from Johns Hopkins Partin tables, upon request.
• Thumbprints of HGPIN and/or adenocarcinoma, when present.
• Diagnosis and quantitation of HGPIN.
• Quantitation of adenocarcinoma.
• Use of quality immunomarkers to support diagnosis of ASAP, including AMACR, HMWK, p63.