APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR REMOVING SPRING BASED MULTIPLE BIOPSY SPECIMENS FROM MULTIPLE BIOPSY STORAGE CYLINDERS BEFORE AND AFTER BIOPSY FIXATION AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL PROCESSING
An apparatus for removing biopsies from spring based multiple biopsy storage cylinders for analysis. The storage cylinders and spring based biopsy mechanism permit 360 degree biopsy mechanism rotation and increase the number and diameter of biopsies stored. Additional storage cylinder improvements allow closed storage cylinder opening for removing internal plastic cylinders or biopsies before fixing, thereby leaving the same multiple biopsy instrument available for additional biopsies on the same patient. The improvements allow for removing the surrounding biopsy mechanism and biopsies from closed storage cylinders after actuator removal and histopathological processing of biopsies to paraffin embedding. Additionally apparatuses, tools and methods are described for simultaneously separating numerous actuators from storage cylinders and removing numerous paraffin embedded biopsies from storage cylinders and surrounding biopsy mechanisms for histopathological slide fabrication.
