Increasing the efficiency of paraffin tissue microarrays by packing the paraffin tissue core biopsies in a honeycomb pattern

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-345

  Vogel, Ulrich Felix ^a   Bode, Joerg ^b   Bueltmann, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Applied Imaging Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Paraffin tissue core biopsies; Technique; Tissue microarrays

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TISSUE REACTION; TISSUE SECTION;

BIOPSY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548241873     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pai.0000213140.47277.f6     Document Type: Article

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