title: Human fat cell sizing--a quick, simple method.
abstract: Two methods were used to determine the mean cell diameters of 37 samples of human adipose tissue, obtained by open or needle biopsy. Method I was the sizing of cells in cell suspensions and Method II was a quick, simple method of sizing cells from fixed sections. The agreement between the two methods was good (r = 0.93, P = less than 0.001). The results using Method II were slightly lower than those using Method I, and a correction factor is suggested. Method II has several advantages over Method I and we propose that it is a suitable method for sizing cells when a quick method with a permanent record is required.
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000166:cytology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D001706:Biopsy; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008722:Methods