Handling of radical prostatectomy specimens: Total embedding with whole mounts, with special reference to the Ancona experience

Histopathology

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1006-1010

  Montironi, Rodolfo ^a   Lopez Beltran, Antonio ^b   Scarpelli, Marina ^a   Mazzucchelli, Roberta ^a   Cheng, Liang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; FORMALDEHYDE; FORMIC ACID; HEMATOXYLIN;

CANCER STAGING; EMBEDDING; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; PATHOLOGIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMINAL VESICLE; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE SLICE;

HUMANS; MALE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 84860392657     PISSN: 03090167     EISSN: 13652559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2559.2011.03908.x     Document Type: Letter

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