***Includes Practice Test Questions*** Histotechnician Exam Secrets helps you ace the Histotechnician Certification Examination, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive Histotechnician Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. Histotechnician Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to HT Exam Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; A comprehensive Content review including: Chemical And Physical Fixatives, Refractive Index, Enzymes, Autolysis And Putrefaction, Coagulating Or Non-Coagulating, Cell Nucleus, Osmolality, Formalin Pigment, Bouin Solution, Microwave Radiation, Immunofluorescence, Picric Acid, Mercuric Chloride, Glutaraldehyde, Muscle Biopsy, Cytology Specimen, Carnoy Solution, Immunohistochemistry, Aldehyde Fixative Solutions, Ethanol, Xylene, Paraffin, Decalcification, Chelation, Spatial Orientation Of Tissue, Electron Microscopy, Carbowax, Celloidin, Rotary Microtome, Cryostat, Washboarding Artifacts, Embedded Block, Reticula, Ribosomes, Acid And Basic Dyes, Euchromatin And Heterochromatin, Isoelectric Point, Amphoteric, Metachromatic, Chromophore, Auxophore, Progressive Staining, Hematoxylin, and much more...

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Applicants preparing for the Board of Certification examinations in HT and HTL will find valuable assistance in this handy guide. The Study Guide covers all areas encountered on the exam, including fixation, processing, microtomy, staining, and laboratory operations. Features: * Over 1,100 multiple choice questions, arranged in chapters which correspond to the major content areas on the examination. Questions are then further broken down by topic * Practice questions are presented in a format and style similar to those included on the BOC certification examinations * Valuable information included about the development, content, structure, and scoring of the test * Full color image-based questions included * Advice for preparing for and taking your BOC certification examinations In addition to providing valuable help to applicants for preparing for the examination, its explanation of the structure and scoring of Board of Certification examinations makes it an essential text for officials of histotechnology education programs.

Histologic Preparations: Common Problems and Their Solutions, developed by the College of American Pathologists Histotechnology Committee in conjunction with the National Society for Histotechnology, is a how-to guide to good slide preparation. Building on data and images from the NSH/CAP HistoQIP program, the book presents photographic examples of well-prepared slides followed by numerous examples of associated problems and their solutions.Histologic Preparations is both a reference text and as a teaching tool. Written for pathologists, pathology residents, histotechnologists, histotechnicians, and histology students, it contains troubleshooting techniques for the most common artifacts and problems incurred in routine histologic preparations.

A Practical Guide to Frozen Section Technique offers an easy to learn approach to frozen section technique in the form of a highly illustrated handbook intended for onsite use in the laboratory. The book begins with a novel, clearly delineated, step by step approach to learning continuous motion brush technique. Emphasis is placed on recognizing and correcting artifacts during the preparation process. The book addresses all of the steps in the preparation of slides from cutting through cover-slipping. The author’s unique, original techniques for tissue embedding including face down embedding in steel well bars, frozen block cryoembedding and paper cryoembedding are detailed. Variables key to the quality of the preparation including block temperature, tissue properties and section thickness are detailed. The book also covers understanding the cryostat and basic maintenance and care.Sections covering techniques used in Mohs dermatologic surgery, and techniques used in basic animal and human research are discussed by noted experts in their field. A Practical Guide to Frozen Section Technique will be of great value to pathologists, pathology residents in training and also experimental pathology researchers that rely upon this methodology to perform tissue analysis in research.