Decalcified bone: Twenty years of successful specimen management

Journal of Histotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 267-277

  Skinner, Robert A ^a   Hickmon, Sandra G ^b   Lumpkin, Charles K ^a   Aronson, James ^a   Nicholas, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Mail Slot 644 ^*

Author keywords

Bone; Decalcification; Formalin fixation; Paraffin embedding

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ARTICLE; BONE MATRIX; BONE NECROSIS; HISTOLOGY; STAINING;

EID: 0030766339     PISSN: 01478885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/his.1997.20.3.267     Document Type: Article

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