Evaluation of the value of frozen tissue section used as "gold standard" for immunohistochemistry

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 129, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 358-366

  Shi, Shan Rong ^a   Liu, Cheng ^a   Pootrakul, Llana ^a   Tang, Laurie ^a   Young, Andrew ^a   Chen, Ryan ^a   Cote, Richard J ^a   Taylor, Clive R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigen retrieval; Formalin fixation; Frozen tissue section; Immunohistochemistry; Paraffin embedding

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ALCOHOL; ANTIBODY; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; FORMALDEHYDE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PARAFFIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FIXATIVE;

ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; FROZEN SECTION; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; STANDARD; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETONE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; ETHANOL; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 41649109067     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/7CXUYXT23E5AL8KQ     Document Type: Article

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