Polyester wax: A new embedding medium for the histopathologic study of human temporal bones

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 245-249

  Merchant, Saumil N ^a,b,c   Burgess, Barbara ^a   O'Malley, Jennifer ^a   Jones, Diane ^a   Adams, Joe C ^a,b  

^a Otopathology Laboratory   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MA Eye and Ear Infirmary   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ALBUMIN; EDETIC ACID; EOSIN; FORMALDEHYDE; GELATIN; HEMATOXYLIN; POLYESTER; WAX; ANTIBODY; BONE WAX; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; PALMITIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTI ORGAN; EMBEDDING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNER EAR; MELTING POINT; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; TEMPORAL BONE; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH; ADOLESCENT; DRUG COMBINATION; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EAR, INNER; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PALMITATES; POLYESTERS; TEMPORAL BONE; TISSUE EMBEDDING; WAXES;

EID: 33645761431     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000192171.85406.47     Document Type: Article

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