Surgical Pathology Shipping Instructions: Renal Biopsy

Renal Muscle Nerve Pathology Requisition Renal Version

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

Renal Muscle Nerve Pathology Requisition

Renal Pathology Biopsy Clinical Information Form

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.

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.

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.