Light-weight plastination

Annals of Anatomy

Volumn 190, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 428-431

  Steinke, Hanno ^a   Rabi, Suganthy ^b   Saito, Toshiyuki ^c   Sawutti, Alimjan ^c   Miyaki, Takayoshi ^c   Itoh, Masahiro ^c   Spanel Borowski, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anatomical collection; Conservation; Education; Gross anatomy; Plastination; Preparation technique; Preservation

Indexed keywords

RESIN; SILICONE; XYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; ODOR; PLASTINATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE SLICE;

ANATOMY; EPOXY RESINS; HEART; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; KIDNEY; PLASTIC EMBEDDING; SHOULDER; SILICONES; TEACHING MATERIALS; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

EID: 55349096431     PISSN: 09409602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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