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1Department of Pathology, Ottawa Civic Hospital, Canada.
Ultrastructural Pathology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Although most diagnostic markers lie within the cell, a few are found in the matrix. Well-known examples of these are amyloid filaments and fibrous long-spacing collagen (Luse body). Perhaps not so well-known are the diagnostic values of anchoring fibrils and microvillus-matrix associations. The latter two form the subject of this paper.
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