Staining method to demonstrate urate crystals in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 774-775

  Shidham, Vinod ^a   Shidham, Ganesh ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b QUEENS HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URATE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL; GOUT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; STAINING; TISSUE FIXATION;

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FORMALDEHYDE; GOUT; HISTOCYTOLOGICAL PREPARATION TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STAINING AND LABELING; URIC ACID;

EID: 0034078106     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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