Availability and quality of paraffin blocks identified in pathology archives: A multi-institutional study by the Shared Pathology Informatics Network (SPIN)

BMC Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Patel, Ashokkumar A ^a   Gupta, Dilipkumar ^a   Seligson, David ^b   Hattab, Eyas M ^c   Balis, Ulysses J ^d   Ulbright, Thomas M ^c   Kohane, Isaac S ^d   Berman, Jules J ^e   Gilbertson, John R ^a   Dry, Sarah ^b   Schirripa, Osvaldo ^b   Yu, Hong ^b   Becich, Michael J ^a   Parwani, Anil V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RESEARCH; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

PARAFFIN;

HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; TISSUE BANKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847776571     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-7-37     Document Type: Article

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