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ReviewClinical medicine insights. Pathology2016

Diagnostic Implication and Clinical Relevance of Ancillary Techniques in Clinical Pathology Practice.

Jaafar S Makki

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Review in Clinical medicine insights. Pathology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Fluorescence in situ hybridization in species-specific diagnosis of ovineJournal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2020
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  6. Biochemical similarity between cultured chondrocytes andBiotechnology reports (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2019
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  9. Biocompatibility of intravitreal injection of human mesenchymal stem cells in immunocompetent rabbits.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Jaafar S MakkiSenior Pathologist, Pathology Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hematoxylin-eosin-stained slide preparation is one of the most durable techniques in medicine history, which has remained unchanged since implemented. It allows an accurate microscopic diagnosis of the vast majority of tissue samples. In many circumstances, this technique cannot answer all the questions posed at the initial diagnostic level. The pathologist has always been looking for additional ancillary techniques to answer pending questions. In our daily histopathology practice, we referred to those techniques as special stains, but nowadays, they are more than stains and are collectively called ancillary tests. They include a wide range of techniques starting from histochemical stains and ending in one or more advanced techniques, such as immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, molecular studies, cytogenetic studies, electron microscopy, flow cytometry, and polymerase chain reaction.

Indexed as

ancillary technique of pathologycytogenetic studiesFISHflow cytometryhistochemical stainIHCimmunofluorescent stainingmolecular studiesPCRsingle-cell suspensionspecial stain

Identifiers

PMID27042154
PMCPMC4807883

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