Patent ID: 7526987

Claim:
A method of preparing slices of tissue uniformly of a desired thickness, comprising: selecting a piece of tissue to be sampled; providing a pathology grossing tool comprising: a tine support; a plurality of tines projecting from said tine support, each said tine terminating in a sharp tissue penetrating tip; and a handle extending from said tine support; wherein there are first and second arrays of tines projecting from said tine support, said arrays of tines each being defined in a plane, said tine arrays being disposed in parallel so as to define a gap therebetween, said gap defined between said tine arrays being about 1 to 2 millimeters, each tine of said first tine array being disposed in opposed parallel, facing relation to a corresponding tine of said second tine array; providing a cutting surface; penetrating said piece of tissue with said tines to hold said piece of tissue against said cutting surface; and slicing the tissue with a bladed instrument along an outer surface of each array of tines to define a tissue sample to be processed between the tine arrays.