RAPID FROZEN SECTION TECHNIQUE

Duration: 3 min

Year Published: 1968

Creator: National Medical Audiovisual Center (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)

Color: Color

Sound: Optical sound

Description: Demonstrates how the specimen is identified, trimmed for sectioning, placed on the microtome and frozen. Subsequent scenes show how the frozen specimen is cut into thin sections, stained, and finally prepared for examination by the pathologist.