This platform holds a piece of tissue during a frozen section procedure.

During surgery a small portion of tissue is frozen and thinly sectioned (about 5-7 microns), then the section is stained for a Pahtologist to look at (while the patient is still on the operating table). The immediate evaluation can change the course of the operative procedure depending on what is seen in the tissue.

This platform is also something that I for my research and there never seem to be enough clean FS holders to go around, so I made my own.

Using this base you can design any shape or length if for example you wanted to cut oversized frozen sections or long thin ones etc...

On one platform I covered one surface with a metallic paint but there doesn't seem to be a difference in how it performs.

Designed in trueSpace and printed on an Up!3D in Octave ABS, Fine print with 2 layer raft.

Download and print out as many as you need.