To prevent a small biopsy from being lost during processing, what should you do?

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Small biopsy fragments are easily washed away during processing. To keep them from being lost, place the tissue in a containment support such as a fine mesh or a tissue cassette, so it stays secured while dehydrants, clears, and paraffin infiltrate around it. This physical containment preserves the sample throughout processing. Staining immediately doesn’t protect tissue during the processing steps, and freezing is used for cryopreservation or frozen-section work rather than preventing loss in routine paraffin processing. embedding directly in paraffin would come after processing and wouldn’t stop loss during the processing steps.