[Is standardization possible in immunohistochemical examination?]

Immunohistochemistry has become an important tool in research and in surgical pathology. Rapid growth of a new methods in immunohistochemistry supplement traditional histochemical and histological light microscopy investigations. Immunohistochemistry has given pathologists a chance to location different antigens on the cell surface as well as in the cell compartments. The expression of antigens are mostly influenced by factors connected with tissue processing; fixation and embedding. The aim of present article is to show the role of these factors and their influence on some immunohistochemical staining results. Not all the problems are discussed here, the main goal which authors would like to obtain is to show the way how to solve problems which can occur during immunohistochemical staining procedure. They want also to delineate the importance of standardization in immunohistochemistry to make the results more reliable between different laboratories.