The effect of fixation on detection of B-cell clonality by polymerase chain reaction

Modern Pathology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 272-278

  Tbakhi, Abdelghani ^a   Totos, Grigorios ^a   Pettay, James D ^a   Myles, Jonathan ^a   Tubbs, Raymond R ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonality; Fixation; Lymphoma; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

DNA; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; PARAFFIN; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; EMBEDDING; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE FIXATION;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONE CELLS; DNA; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FIXATIVES; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0033006033     PISSN: 08933952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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