Ch8: Surgical Diagnosis Flashcards
- Surgical pathology involves what types of studies?3
- Frozen sections
- Permanent sections
- Special studies
Tumor diagnosis is performed originally by who?
Surgeon
Tumor diagnosis is done by doing what?
Removing a mass
Two types of procedures for tumor diagnosis?
Lumpectomy: Benign lesion
Radical: Malignant lesion
With a frozen section, who looks at tissue first?
pathologist
What determines whether an area will be examined for frozen section?
- Tumor or not
- benign or malignant
- if margins need to be used
What is process of frozen section? 5
- Tissue put on chuck and covered with OCT
- Place in cryostat and freeze to -22 celscius
- Then cut thin slices in cryostat
- Stain with hematoxylin and eosin and cover slip
- Examine microscopically and give diagnosis
What are three things difficult to do with frozen tissue?
- margins of malignant melanoma
- lymphoma assessment
- degree of dysplasia
What are steps of permanent sections diagnosis? 11
- Tissue entered and recorded
- Gross examination occurs
- Dissected
- Fixate with a fixative agent
- Embed in paraffin
- section
- plass on glass slide
- de paraffined
- stained
- cover slipped
- diagnosed
Most common fixative?
What else might be used?
Formalin
B-5, bouin’s, zencker
What is most common stain of tissues?
Hematoxylin and eosin
What will Oil Red O stain do?
Red dye that dissolves into triglycerides
What does silver stain do?
Precipitate silver into specific cells, or components of cell walls of fungi and bacteria
What is Grocott’s or Gomori’s methenamine silver stain used for?
Fungi
What is Warthin-Starry silver stain used for?
Bacteria/Spirochetes
What is BIelschowsky’s silver stain used for?
Neural tissue
What is reticulin stain used for?
Staining reticulin network in tissues
Reticulin is what type of collagen?
Where is it found?
Type III
In support of organs
Periodic Acid Schiff stain (PAS) is used for what structures? (4)
- fungi
- intestinal mucins
- basement membranes
- glycogen
Giemsa stain is used for what? (2)
H. pylori
Parasites
Congo red stain is used for what?
Amyloid stain
Trichrome stain is used for what? 3
Differentiating smooth muscle (red), CT (blue), and neural tissue (pink)
Two types of iron stains?
Prussian blue
Colloidal iron
Prussian blue does what?
Stains tissue iron blue
Colloidal iron stains what blue?
Mucins
Tissue gram stain does what?
Gram stains bacteria
What are the three myobacterial stains?
- Ziehl neelson
- fite stain
- auromine O stain
What stains will you use for fungi? (2)
- PAS or
2. GMS
What stain will you use for BM of glomerulus?
- PAS
2. silver reticular
What are immunostains?
Monoclonal antibody stains that have marker substance.
What are immunohistochemical stains?
Chromagen catalyzed by an enzyme with antibody that results in color formation
Immunofluorescent stains are different from immunostains how?
Still use mono Ab’s but have a fluorescent tag attached, remain attached to antigen after slide rinse.
Polyclonal ab’s come form what?
Animals that have been exposed to antigen of interest
Monclonal ab’s come from what?
Mice
Are mono or poly ab’s more specific?
Mono
Steps of making mono ab’s? 4
- Expose mouse to antigen
- Remove splenic lymphocytes
- fuse with mouse myseloma to make hybrid that produces Ab and has long cell life.
- Culture hybridomas and harvest antibody
What is cold ischemic time?
Time from when tissue is removed from body until it is fixed
What is fixation time?
Perfect amount of fixation as to not alter staining
Some antibodies need what to increase their sensitivity?
Antigen retrieval
antigen retrieval is done by what? (4)
- heating
- EDTA
- citrate
- enzymes
Detection of immuno stains requires what? 6
- Add primary specific monoclonal antibody to slide
- rinse
- add secondary detector antibody (anti mouse) to slide
- rinse
- Enzyme solution added to catalyze reaction with chromagen
- color forms and you can diagnose
What antigen classes are used for diagnosis and prognosis? 7
- intermediate filament
- cell surface markers
- hormones
- receptors
- enzymes
- mucins
- various cell proteins
Intermediate filament proteins are classified into what five classes?
- Class 1 and 2: Keratins for epithelial differentiation
- Class III: Vimentin, desmin, glial fibrillary
- Class IV: neurofilaments
- Class V: neurolamins
Keratins are markers of what?
Epithelial cells