Analysis of interference criteria for the validation of a method file : HPS staining after fixation with zinc-formalin in comparison to fixation with the classical 4% buffered formalin solution

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INTRODUCTION: The department of neuropathology of Sainte-Anne Hospital uses zinc-formalin as the fixative agent for its samples. No publication referenced in Pubmed has proven the validity of this fixative agent. In the context of the accreditation of our standard staining (HPS for Hemalun-Phloxin-Saffron), we started a file for the validation of this method in which the fixative agent constitutes an « interfering » substance which can modify the quality of the technique. The aim of this study was to prove that the use of zinc-formalin as a fixative agent is as suitable as the fixation with 4 % buffered formalin.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cohort of samples fixed by zinc-formalin and by 4 % buffered formalin was performed on fresh samples, then cut and stained by HPS. The slides were interpreted by three pathologists (one of them was outside our centre)  ``blind '' to the fixative agent and they evaluated four criteria (general quality of the staining, components of the extracellular matrix, cytoplasmic details, and nuclear details) and scored them (from 0 to 3) according to the Association française en assurance qualité (AFAQAP) recommendations.

RESULTS: The cohort included 43 samples. The results of the analysis showed that for samples fixed by zinc-formalin, three of the four criteria obtained significantly a better score than the samples fixed by classical formalin.

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: Our results show that the zinc-formalin fixative does not constitute an  ``interfering '' agent for the quality of the HPS staining for neuropathological samples.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:41

Enthalten in:

Annales de pathologie - 41(2021), 3 vom: 08. Juni, Seite 310-316

Sprache:

Französisch

Weiterer Titel:

Étude de l’item d’interférence dans un dossier de validation de méthode : cas de la coloration HPS après fixation en formol-zinc et comparaison à la fixation en formol tamponné à 4

Beteiligte Personen:

Tauziède-Espariat, Arnault [VerfasserIn]
Côme, Dominique [VerfasserIn]
Massé, Joëlle [VerfasserIn]
Zaomi, Myriam [VerfasserIn]
Collard, Aurélien [VerfasserIn]
Lacombe, Joëlle [VerfasserIn]
Oliveiro, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
Mehdi, Leïla [VerfasserIn]
Pucelle, Noémie [VerfasserIn]
Gigant, Priscille [VerfasserIn]
Berthaud, Charlotte [VerfasserIn]
Thuries, Valérie [VerfasserIn]
Roux, Alexandre [VerfasserIn]
Cazals-Hatem, Dominique [VerfasserIn]
Gareton, Albane [VerfasserIn]
Pagès, Mélanie [VerfasserIn]
Chrétien, Fabrice [VerfasserIn]
Varlet, Pascale [VerfasserIn]
Lechapt-Zalcman, Emmanuèle [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

1HG84L3525
Fixatives
Formaldehyde
Formol-zinc
Hémalun-Phloxine-Safran
Hemalun-Phloxin-Saffron
J41CSQ7QDS
Journal Article
Validation de méthode
Validation method
Zinc
Zinc-formalin

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Date Completed 15.10.2021

Date Revised 15.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.annpat.2020.10.003

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM320569853