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Histological examination of biopsy material is an essential adjunct to diagnosis, yet the process by which a pathological slide is created is poorly understood by most non-histopathologists. Basically, it consists of three stages before the histological slide can be interpreted.
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Bancroft JD, Gamble M. Theory and practice of histological techniques. 6th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone; 2008.
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McWilliam, L. (2012). Histopathological Processing, Staining, and Immuno-histochemistry. In: Payne, S., Eardley, I., O'Flynn, K. (eds) Imaging and Technology in Urology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2422-1_39
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