Handbook of Practical Immunohistochemistry
Frequently Asked Questions
Editors: Lin, Fan, Prichard, Jeffrey (Eds.)
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- Provides a conceptually current, quick-reference, question-and-answer format
- Grants access to immunohistochemical laboratory website
- Includes more than 400 high-quality color images
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- About this book
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In a conceptually current, quick-reference, Question & Answer format, the second edition of Handbook of Practical Immunohistochemistry: Frequently Asked Questions continues to provide a comprehensive and yet concise state-of-the-art overview of the major issues specific to the field of immunohistochemistry. With links to the authors Immunohistochemical Laboratory website, this volume creates a current and up-to-date information system on immunohistochemistry. This includes access to tissue microarrays (TMA) of over 10,000 tumors and normal tissue to validate common diagnostic panels and provide the best reproducible data for diagnostic purposes.
Fully revised and updated from the first edition, the new features of the second edition include over 200 additional questions or revised questions with an IHC panel to answer each question; over 250 new color photos and illustrations; over 20 new useful biomarkers; hundreds of new references; several new chapters to cover phosphoproteins, rabbit monoclonal antibodies, multiplex IHC stains, overview of predictive biomarkers, and integration of IHC into molecular pathology; many new coauthors who are international experts in a related field; many updated IHC panels using Geisinger IHC data collected from over 10,000 tumors and normal tissues; and updated appendices containing detailed antibody information for both manual and automated staining procedures.
Comprehensive yet practical and concise, the Handbook of Practical Immunohistochemistry: Frequently Asked Questions, Second Edition will be of great value for surgical pathologists, pathology residents and fellows, cytopathologists, and cytotechnologists.
- About the authors
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Fan Lin, MD, PhD
Geisinger Medical Center
Anatomic Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Danville, PA
Jeffrey Prichard, DO
Geisinger Medical Center
Anatomic Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Danville, PA
- Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Immunohistochemistry Quality Management and Regulation
Pages 1-16
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Standardization of Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry
Pages 17-30
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Automated Immunohistochemistry Overview
Pages 31-38
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Geisinger Immunohistochemical Antibodies and Staining Protocols
Pages 39-56
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Immunohistochemistry: A Dako Perspective
Pages 57-67
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Handbook of Practical Immunohistochemistry
- Book Subtitle
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Editors
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- Fan Lin
- Jeffrey Prichard
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4939-1578-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4939-1578-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-1577-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4939-4058-5
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XV, 764
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 461 illustrations in colour
- Topics