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Fixation and Sectioning

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Two basic types of preparation are used to visualize specimens with a light microscope: wet mounts and fixed specimens.
The simplest type of preparation is the wet mount, in which the specimen is placed in a drop of liquid on the slide. A liquid specimen can be directly deposited on the slide using a dropper. Solid specimens, such as skin scraping, can be placed on the slide before adding a drop of liquid to prepare the wet mount. Sometimes the liquid is simply water, but stains are often added...

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Clinicopathologic Correlation between Frozen Section Versus Paraffin-Embedded Sections in Common Dermatosis: A

Gajanan A Pise¹, Naveen Manohar¹, Shruthi S Prasad²

¹Department of Dermatology, Belagavi Institute of Medical Sciences, Belagavi, Karnataka, India.

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