Who owns diagnostic tissue blocks?

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 69-73

  Dry, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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PARAFFIN;

GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

EID: 77956950682     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: 19437730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/LM3XP8HBKDSGICJH     Document Type: Review

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