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Laboratory:

Anatomical Pathology

Test Code:

Registration Instructions:

Send away test to the National Referral Laboratory, Dept of Genetic Medicine, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide

Victorian Neuromuscular Laboratory Service add-on request. Test registration is performed by VNLS

Authorisation: Pathologist authorisation required.

Resulting: Assay results are incorporated into a muscle biopsy report issued by the pathologist.

Specimen Types:

Unfixed Tissue

Container Types:

See Under Collection Instructions

Collection & Request Instructions:

Must be discussed Anatomical Pathologist-90763150

The assay sample is drawn from a portion of the fresh frozen muscle specimen which forms part of the formal 3 specimen muscle biopsy procedure.

Transport Instructions:

See Detailed Information

Processing Instructions:

Store at -70'C

Assay Frequency:

By Arrangement

External Laboratory:

The Alfred Pathology Service (APS)

External Transport Instructions:

Send Frozen on Dry Ice