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MLS 431 Histopathology I

400 levelMedical & Health Sciences10 topics

MLS 431 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Principles of tissue processing
  2. Fixation and fixatives
  3. Decalcification techniques
  4. Tissue embedding and section cutting (microtomy)
  5. Routine haematoxylin and eosin staining
  6. Special stains for connective tissue and carbohydrates
  7. Frozen section techniques
  8. Mounting and mountants
  9. Artefacts in histological sections
  10. Specimen accessioning and laboratory records

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Principles of tissue processing

Principles of tissue processing focus on preparing tissue so that its microscopic structure is preserved, supported, and thinly sectioned for examination. For exams, you must master the purpose and sequence of the major steps—fixation, dehydration, clearing, infiltration, embedding, and section preparation—and understand how poor processing creates artefacts that can mislead diagnosis.

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