Small specimens when removing extremely small specimens avoid using a laser these units literally cook the margins of the tissue, making histopathologic examination difficult to impossible. Large specimens remember that larger biopsy specimens are not limited to histopathology alone. Stain one or two slides with your favorite in-house stain, covership, and examine the smears microscopically to make sure that erythrocytes are not the only cells on the slide. Submit your stained slides and the remaining unstained, air-dried slides to the diagnostic laboratory along with your comments or questions and the appropriate history. If the tissue is more than cm thick, it needs to be sectioned such that adequate fixation can occur cut bread slices approximately cm apart in the tissue, leaving the bottom of the specimen intact so that tissue orientation is not lost.
Plastic containers are better than glass jars for shipping samples to the lab.
Do not use narrow-mouth containers fixed tissue swells and cannot be removed from the container.