How to Submit a Specimen for Cutaneous Pathology Analysis: Using the '5 D's' to Get the Most from Biopsies

Archives of Family Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 64-66

  Boyd, Alan S ^a   Neldner, Kenneth H ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE;

HUMANS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 0030636322     PISSN: 10633987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archfami.6.1.64     Document Type: Article

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