The Pre-analytical Phase in Surgical Pathology

Recent Results in Cancer Research

Volumn 199, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bussolati, Gianni ^a   Annaratone, Laura ^a   Maletta, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cold fixation; Ischemia; Under vacuum

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MESSENGER RNA; PARAFFIN; RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLD ISCHEMIA; COOLING; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; SURGERY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE PREPARATION; TISSUE PRESERVATION; UNDER VACUUM SEALING; CHEMISTRY; ISCHEMIA; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RNA STABILITY; STANDARDS; VACUUM;

COLD ISCHEMIA; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; RNA; RNA STABILITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TISSUE FIXATION; VACUUM; WARM ISCHEMIA;

EID: 84926656223     PISSN: 00800015     EISSN: 21976767     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13957-9_1     Document Type: Article

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