Surgical Pathology Shipping Instructions: Renal Biopsy

Instructions for Preparing and Shipping Renal Biopsies to UF Health Pathology Laboratories

What is included in this kit?

  • One vial of formalin
  • One requisition form
  • One vial of Michel’s (IF) medium
  • One Renal Pathology Biopsy Clinical Information Form

How to prepare the specimen:

Proper handling of the specimen depends on the number of cores and amount of tissue collected.

Two cores:

  • Place Core #1 in formalin.
  • Cut the tips (1 mm) off
    other core.
  • Submit the tips from
    Core #2 in formalin.
  • Place the remainder of
    Core #2 in Michel’s (IF)
    medium.

Renal Biopsy Two Cores
One core ( > 5 mm):

  • Cut off 1 mm of tissue
    off of the ends of the
    specimen.
  • Submit the tips of the
    specimen in the formalin
    vial.
  • Cut the remaining
    specimen in half.
  • Submit one half of the
    remaining specimen in
    formalin.
  • Submit the other half of
    the remaining specimen
    in Michel’s (IF) medium.

Renal Biopsy One Core
One core or scant tissue ( < 5 mm):

  • Submit one half of the tissue in formalin and the other half in Michel’s (IF) medium.
  • We can triage tissue in formalin for electron microscopy if needed.