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Lymph Node Biopsies

Requisition

CLS Surgical Pathology

Specimen Handling and Transport

Place the specimen in a gauze pad saturated with sterile normal saline.  Place the gauze and specimen in a screw-capped container and label the container according to CLS requirements.

Forward to the histology lab IMMEDIATELY.

Notes

After normal hours, if you are querying Lymphoma, contact the pathologist on-call prior to doing a biopsy.