Poll: Your favorite objective

[gschl1234]

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2x

 

[icpshootyz]

Well, since our personal scopes at my program only get 4x, 10x, and 40x, I'm a 4x guy. I can do the bulk of my work at that power, and then go higher for things that catch my eye. Small biopsies will get perused at 10x, but 40x is reserved for hi-po nuclear detail viewing. I'd like a 2x and a 20x, but eh, I get by for now.

 

[gschl1234]

Well, since our personal scopes at my program only get 4x, 10x, and 40x, I'm a 4x guy. I can do the bulk of my work at that power, and then go higher for things that catch my eye. Small biopsies will get perused at 10x, but 40x is reserved for hi-po nuclear detail viewing. I'd like a 2x and a 20x, but eh, I get by for now.

It's too bad you guys don't have 2 or 20. I like 2 because it's the biggest field you can have. I guess I only use 40 if I'm really having trouble with mitoses. I agree, 10 is good for bx.

 

[simplesuture]

i prefer oil immersing EM printouts

 

[lipomas]

2x is my favorite but the one I really couldn't do without is probably the 10x. I am trying to remember whether the boards microscopes did not have a 10x or did not have a 20x. They were missing one of those and it pissed me off.

 

[2121115]

It's too bad you guys don't have 2 or 20. I like 2 because it's the biggest field you can have. I guess I only use 40 if I'm really having trouble with mitoses. I agree, 10 is good for bx.

Don't you have to count mitoses on 400x in order to accurately quantify them (i.e. 10 per hpf, etc, etc)?

 

[KCShaw]

For the tumors where that's a documented part of the diagnosis/prognosis, the relevant published studies it's based on specify the area the used and at what power mitoses were documented. So people with slightly different size fields can calculate for themselves how many per -their- field is appropriate. Most of my attendings had the relevant comparisons already calculated and on a sticky-note or something on the wall of their office or shoved under something by their scope. Not something I do these days, so I've mostly dumped that information from my brain in exchange for other things.

 

[gschl1234]

Don't you have to count mitoses on 400x in order to accurately quantify them (i.e. 10 per hpf, etc, etc)?

If I can, I do it at 20 and count 1/2 the # of fields (5 instead of 10 or whatever). If I can't find any, I go to 40.

 

[Parts Unknown]

I was wondering when this forum would officially jump the shark, and I guess this is it.

Personally, I prefer the 4x. When you put a bunch of them in a sock you can really turn somebody's lights out.