Böcker av Anthony S-Y Leong

While a pattern approach to diagnosis is taught and practiced with almost every other tissue or organ in the body, the lymph node remains a mystery to most residents starting out in pathology and those pathologists with limited experience in the area.

Qualitative applications of immunohistochemistry are well established and continue to increase, however, numerous variables that influence the immunoexpression of proteins in formalin-fixed tissue continue to exist in the pre-analytical and analytical phases of the test procedure. This book emphasizes these problems and suggests solutions.

Covers the applications of microwaves for antigen retrieval and the impact of this technology on tumour diagnosis. This book also covers techniques for both light microscopy and ultrastructural studies, including applications for tissue fixation, demineralization, histochemical and immunohistochemical staining and antigen retrieval.