Detection of ALK Gene Rearrangements in Formalin-Fixed, Paraffin-Embedded Tissue Using a Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Probe: A Search for Optimum Conditions of Tissue Archiving and Preparation for FISH

Molecular Diagnosis

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-33

  Tan, Leonard Hwan Cheong ^a,b   Do, Elaine ^b   Chong, Siew Meng ^a   Koay, Evelyn Siew Chuan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASTIC LYMPHOMA KINASE; COLLAGEN; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROLYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOID TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; TISSUE ARCHIVING; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE TYPES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COLLAGEN; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242333127     PISSN: 10848592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00066982-200307010-00005     Document Type: Article

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