Radical prostatectomy specimen processing: A critical appraisal of sampling methods

Current Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 490-498

  Sung, Ming Tse ^a,b   Davidson, Darrell D ^a   Montironi, Rodolfo ^c   Lopez Beltran, Antonio ^d   Cheng, Liang ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pathological staging; Processing protocol; Prostatic neoplasm; Radical prostatectomy; Specimen handling; Tissue procurement; Whole mount method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EVALUATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 35848955658     PISSN: 09686053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cdip.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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