The technique that is used to perform the process or preserve the specimen. These are codes from SNOMED CT - provided as an exemplar value set.
This value set contains 63 concepts
Expansion based on SNOMED CT International edition 31-July 2022
Code System Display
9056003 icon http://snomed.info/sct Gross organ fixation and special preparation for museum, liquid media
13374006 icon http://snomed.info/sct Hemolysin detection, cold, quantitative
18699002 icon http://snomed.info/sct Clinical laboratory specimen identification
27107005 icon http://snomed.info/sct Osmotic fragility, immediate
32989007 icon http://snomed.info/sct Unsatisfactory clinical laboratory specimen identified
43372004 icon http://snomed.info/sct Specimen dispatch and referral, routine
47043008 icon http://snomed.info/sct Osmotic fragility, incubated
53355002 icon http://snomed.info/sct Gross organ fixation and special preparation for museum, solid plastic
62087002 icon http://snomed.info/sct Clinical laboratory specimen rejection
66910006 icon http://snomed.info/sct Gross organ fixation and special preparation
79453001 icon http://snomed.info/sct Chain of custody procedure in laboratory specimen handling
80246006 icon http://snomed.info/sct Special stain, blood or bone marrow, explain by report
90621001 icon http://snomed.info/sct Specimen dispatch and referral, complex
104151002 icon http://snomed.info/sct Complement lysis sensitivity test, RBC
104166004 icon http://snomed.info/sct Nucleic acid molecular isolation or extraction method
104720004 icon http://snomed.info/sct Hemoglobin, unstable measurement
105036000 icon http://snomed.info/sct Tissue preparation for drug analysis
115597007 icon http://snomed.info/sct Description of specimen character
117246001 icon http://snomed.info/sct Osmotic fragility test, RBC dilution method
118130000 icon http://snomed.info/sct Examination of specimen for lipemia
118131001 icon http://snomed.info/sct Examination of specimen for hemolysis
118132008 icon http://snomed.info/sct Examination of specimen for icterus
401297005 icon http://snomed.info/sct Hemolysis screening test (procedure)
409077008 icon http://snomed.info/sct Examination for xanthochromia (procedure)
428995007 icon http://snomed.info/sct Receiving of specimen in laboratory (procedure)
433454009 icon http://snomed.info/sct Microdissection of tissue specimen using laser (procedure)
734227007 icon http://snomed.info/sct Specimen decontamination (procedure)
787371004 icon http://snomed.info/sct Recasting of specimen in block (procedure)
787372006 icon http://snomed.info/sct Preparation of large slide from specimen (procedure)
787373001 icon http://snomed.info/sct Preparation of slide from specimen
787374007 icon http://snomed.info/sct Preparation of plastic embedded tissue specimen
787375008 icon http://snomed.info/sct Preparation of large size formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue specimen
787376009 icon http://snomed.info/sct Preparation of formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue specimen (procedure)
787378005 icon http://snomed.info/sct Fixation of specimen (procedure)
787379002 icon http://snomed.info/sct Handling of oriented specimen (procedure)
787995009 icon http://snomed.info/sct Microdissection of tissue specimen
866036006 icon http://snomed.info/sct Specimen examination by more than one examiner
866037002 icon http://snomed.info/sct Dispatch of specimen for second opinion (procedure)
866039004 icon http://snomed.info/sct Review specimen from own archive (procedure)
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