The construction of high-density paraffin tissue microarrays with 0.43-mm-diameter paraffin tissue core biopsies is technically feasible

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 453, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-46

  Vogel, Ulrich F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Histologic techniques; Methods; Paraffin tissue core biopsies; Pathology; Tissue microarrays

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

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

EID: 48349092642     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-008-0622-9     Document Type: Article

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