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"It really makes preparing a frozen section
easy and, in fact, you don't need skill anymore. It is very
nice to be able to have the confidence of knowing you can
prepare a complete, undamaged section for just about anything."
Dr. James Magidson Laboratory Director (now retired)
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital, East Patchogue, NY.
"I can generate the best quality frozen sections I have
ever seen (with CryoJane)."
Dr. Mark Shertzer
Southeast Alabama Medical Center, Dothan, AL.
"The cryostat attachment has facilitated doing a paraffin-quality
equivalent with frozen tissue, but it is of different quality.
I think it is of uniform quality, equal in its overall quality
to a paraffin section, but it is different than a paraffin
section. It is thin, well-stained, and it lies flat on the
slide, but its appearance is different because it isn't treated
with the same battery of chemicals and without the shrinkage.
You not only get nice detail, you get more ....... It is a
more consistent quality product, and that is a definitive
achievement."
Dr. James McCormick
Director of Pathology Swedish Covenant Hospital Chicago, IL.
"With CryoJane we can make diagnoses faster and with greater
confidence."
Dr. Roberta Rubin
Chilton Memorial Hospital, Pompton Plains, NJ.
"The technical improvements in frozen section quality produced
with CryoJane can only contribute to increasing the pathologist's
confidence and promoting diagnostic accuracy, thus leading
to beneficial patient outcomes. Surgeons have profited by
using frozen sections. CryoJane is a very positive contribution.
It has improved the quality of frozen sections and supplies
information valuable in planning immediate patient care. Instrumedics
has given us a quick and overall more accurate method for
making significant medical decisions. Investment in (CryoJane)
the Cryostat Frozen Sectioning Aid system, means doing the
right thing, the right way, at the right time. The ability
to increase diagnostic accuracy goes a long way to decrease
liability-not only for the pathologist, but also for the health
care system. In short this translates into improved quality
of care in the intraoperative setting."
Dr. Richard Zarbo Director of Surgical Pathology
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI.
"We have solved our problems of cryosectioning snap frozen
mouse lungs by using Instrumedics tape transfer. After struggling
for months, tearing out hair, developing bad language habits,
I convinced the researcher to try this system. No more tears,
cursing, or throwing blocks and just plain tired of fiddly
dinking to do frozens on lung! I have a happy researcher and
I am a changed histotech, no more bad hair days! It is worth
the investment. I have sectioned mink skin that basically
contains pure liquid form lipid, worst stuff I ever saw! and
the section was perfect, retaining hair follicles usually
lost with regular frozens since the cryostat could not be
set cold enough to solidify that yucky lipid content. It takes
just a few minutes to become proficient at using it, I taught
a grad student in 10 minutes! Serial frozen sections are a
snap! I have seen it demonstrated with larger bone sections
but takes a good sharp tungsten carbide knife. The tape transfer
device was an excellent, timely investment and if the lab
burns down, I grab my purse, the Instrumedics device and run
for the door."
Gayle Callis
Montana State University
Comments posted on Histonet.
"OveralI your material is great and I am delighted to work
with you!"
Guido Sauter
Institute of Pathology University of Basel
Switzerland.
"With the CryoJane Tape-Transfer system we can obtain a
frozen section comparable to a formalin fixed paraffin embedded
section without the loss of antigenicity that results with
formalin fixation."
ref: Tulchin etal, Nuclear localization of BRCAI protein in
human breast, International Journal ofOncologyVol 13.513-518,
1998.
Dr. Nina Tulchin
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York City.
"I have used the CryoJane for years and find it especially
useful for cutting consistent thin (2 micron ) serial sections.
They are excellent for immunofluorescent staining."
Dr. Fred Clayton
Salt Lake City VA.
"Once you use the tape-transfer system you never go back."
Dr. Eric Taft
Pathology Department
St. Edward Mercy Medical Center
Fort Smith, ARH.
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