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Tape-Transfer Technology User Comments
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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

"Overall 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, AR