Immunohistochemistry of breast tumor markers on archived bouin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues

Applied Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Morphology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 168-172

  Gagnon, Jean François ^a,b   Sanschagrin, François ^a,b   Jacob, Simon ^a,b   Provencher, Louise ^a,b   Morin, Carol ^a,b   Diorio, Caroline ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

archived; Bouin's solution; breast cancer; ER; FFPE; formalin; formalinfixed paraffin embedded; HER2; immunohistochemistry; PgR

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN 14; CYTOKERATIN 17; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 19; CYTOKERATIN 5; CYTOKERATIN 6; CYTOKERATIN 8; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; PARAFFIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P63; TUMOR MARKER; UVOMORULIN; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER TISSUE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 79951949759     PISSN: 15412016     EISSN: 15334058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAI.0b013e3181f104a1     Document Type: Article

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