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'''Embedded in toto''', abbreviated '''EIT''', means submitted entirely for microscopic examination. | '''Embedded in toto''', abbreviated '''EIT''', means the specimen provided was submitted entirely for microscopic examination, i.e. there is no remaining tissue what was not submitted for microscopy. | ||
This is also known as '''submitted in total''',<ref name=pmid18852679>{{Cite journal | last1 = Yantiss | first1 = RK. | last2 = Shia | first2 = J. | last3 = Klimstra | first3 = DS. | last4 = Hahn | first4 = HP. | last5 = Odze | first5 = RD. | last6 = Misdraji | first6 = J. | title = Prognostic significance of localized extra-appendiceal mucin deposition in appendiceal mucinous neoplasms. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 33 | issue = 2 | pages = 248-55 | month = Feb | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31817ec31e | PMID = 18852679 }}</ref> and '''submitted in toto'''.<ref>URL: [http://www.thefreedictionary.com/in+toto http://www.thefreedictionary.com/in+toto]. Accessed on: 27 September 2013.</ref> | |||
EIT is the rule for small specimens that fit in one cassette. In large specimens, e.g. a colectomy, it is practically never done. | |||
A number of specimens are submitted in total, as per routine practice, e.g. [[Prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy|prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomies]]. | |||
==See also== | |||
*[[Microscopy]]. | |||
*[[Grossing]]. | |||
==References== | |||
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