Taking Tissue Samples from the Placenta: An Illustration of Principles and Strategies

Placenta

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Mayhew, T M ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bias; Multistage sampling; Precision; Simple random sampling; Stratified random sampling; Systematic uniform random sampling

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; EXPLANT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RANDOM SAMPLE; STEREOMETRY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA;

EID: 37649025073     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2007.05.010     Document Type: Article

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