Application of a novel and low cost technique to construct paraffin tissue microarrays out of paraffinised needle biopsy specimens from patients with breast cancer

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 640-643

  Vogel, Ulrich Felix ^a   Bültmann, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955757228     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.076356     Document Type: Article

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