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Availability of immunostaining methods for identification of mixed-up tissue specimens
M Ota1, H Fukushima, T Akamatsu
1Department of Legal Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
The immunostaining method of ABO blood determinants in tissue sections is useful when surgical tissue specimens, submitted for diagnosis, are improperly identified. This article reports two cases in which the surgical specimens became mixed-up and the ABO immunostaining method was used to identify the patients' tissues correctly and prevent unnecessary surgery.