Quality assessment in diagnostic molecular pathology: Experience from a German-Austrian-Swiss multicenter trial

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 437, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 46-51

  Cabras, Antonello Domenico ^a   Kremer, Marcus ^a   Schulz, Stephan ^a   Werner, Martin ^a   Hummel, Michael ^b   Komminoth, Paul ^d   Höfler, Gerald ^c   Höfler, Heinz ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Accreditation; Diagnostic molecular pathology; Quality assessment; Technical standard

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; LYMPHADENITIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECEPTOR GENE; SARCOIDOSIS; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033948429     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280000212     Document Type: Article

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