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==Management== | ==Management== | ||
*Tissue that is confidently identified as a floater and benign is typically identified as such on the slide and otherwise ignored. | |||
**Example: a fragment of benign colon on an endometrial biopsy seen only on one level. | |||
*Tissue that cannot be definitely identified as a floater may require identity testing, using short tanden repeat (STR) DNA testing.<ref name=pmid19745614>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mosse | first1 = CA. | last2 = Stumph | first2 = JR. | last3 = Best | first3 = DH. | last4 = Vnencak-Jones | first4 = CL. | title = A B-cell lymphoma diagnosed in floater tissue: implications of the diagnosis and resolution of a laboratory error. | journal = Am J Med Sci | volume = 338 | issue = 3 | pages = 248-51 | month = Sep | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181a88dc0 | PMID = 19745614 }}</ref> | *Tissue that cannot be definitely identified as a floater may require identity testing, using short tanden repeat (STR) DNA testing.<ref name=pmid19745614>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mosse | first1 = CA. | last2 = Stumph | first2 = JR. | last3 = Best | first3 = DH. | last4 = Vnencak-Jones | first4 = CL. | title = A B-cell lymphoma diagnosed in floater tissue: implications of the diagnosis and resolution of a laboratory error. | journal = Am J Med Sci | volume = 338 | issue = 3 | pages = 248-51 | month = Sep | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3181a88dc0 | PMID = 19745614 }}</ref> | ||
*Malignant tissue that is apparently foreign to the case should be worked-up and reported. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||