What is the optimal cutting temperature for fatty tissues (lipoma, skin, breast)?

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What is the optimal cutting temperature for fatty tissues (lipoma, skin, breast)?

Fatty tissues cut best in a very cold cryostat because the high lipid content keeps fat soft at milder temperatures and prone to smear. Lowering the temperature to about -35°C makes the tissue rigid enough for clean, thin sections, yielding crisp cuts of lipoma, skin, and breast tissue. Warmer settings like -15°C or -25°C often don’t freeze fat hard enough and produce poor sections, while much colder like -45°C can make sections brittle or cause other artifacts.

Fatty tissues cut best in a very cold cryostat because the high lipid content keeps fat soft at milder temperatures and prone to smear. Lowering the temperature to about -35°C makes the tissue rigid enough for clean, thin sections, yielding crisp cuts of lipoma, skin, and breast tissue. Warmer settings like -15°C or -25°C often don’t freeze fat hard enough and produce poor sections, while much colder like -45°C can make sections brittle or cause other artifacts.

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