An inexpensive method of small paraffin tissue microarrays using mechanical pencil tips

Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Shebl, Abdelhadi M ^a   Zalata, Khaled R ^a   Amin, Maha M ^a   El Hawary, Amira K ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Microarrays mechanical; Paraffin tissue; Pencil tips

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MENINGIOMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; TISSUE MICROARRAY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENINGIOMA; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 82355186447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17461596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1596-6-117     Document Type: Article

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