Kit for taking biopsies, autopsies, execisions, and resections and methods thereof
AssigneeHealthTronics Laboratory Solutions, Inc.
InventorDavid Booker
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a kit for taking biopsies, resections, excisions, and/or autopsies. Moreover, the present invention relates to methods of taking biopsies resections, excisions, and/or autopsies using the kit of the present invention. The kits and methods of the present invention allow for fewer errors, decreased turn around time and/or more rapid processing due to a cassette and specimen numbering system that is simplified and superior over that which has been previously disclosed in the prior art. The kit of the present invention comprises one or more tissue cassettes, and optionally one or more bottles of formalin and optionally, other components.
Claims40
A tissue kit comprising one or more tissue cassettes.
A method of preparing samples for a biopsy comprising
- a) taking core needle tissue samples and inserting the core needle tissue samples directly into one or more tissue cassettes.
A method of archiving one or more tissue samples comprising receiving said one or more tissue samples and archiving them by one or more of by date, by accession number, by accession sequence, by submitting or referring physician, or by metadata stored with the one or more tissue samples.
A tissue cassette comprising a plurality of wells.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.