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'''Embedded in toto''', abbreviated '''EIT''', means submitted entirely for microscopic examination. 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> | '''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> | ||
EIT is the rule for small specimens that fit in one cassette. In large specimens, e.g. a colectomy, it is practically never done. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||