The agar sandwich technique for retinal biopsy processing

Retina

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 530-534

  Banker, Alay S ^a   González, Casimiro ^a   Wiley, Clayton A ^a,b   Bergeron Lynn, Germaine ^a   Freeman, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

agar; agar sandwich; diagnosis; ocular infection; retinal biopsy; retinitis; varicella zoster

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CELL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RETINA; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 0030466119     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-199616060-00011     Document Type: Article

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