Pathology in prostate research: Optimizing tissue quality

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 53-55

  Berney, Daniel M ^a   Montironi, Rodolfo ^b   Egevad, Lars ^c  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CYSTECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FORMALIN FIXED PARAFFIN EMBEDDED TISSUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TISSUE MICROARRAY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY CONTROL; TISSUE BANKS;

EID: 79957525593     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2010.525224     Document Type: Review

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