Prolonged storage of tissues at low temperatures does not preclude their use for ultrastructural studies.
A cost-effective method for electron microscopic study of snap-frozen surgical specimens is described. The method is available to any surgical pathology laboratory equipped with a deep freezer and allows the performance of ultrastructural observations on archival material.
Minda
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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Lubensky
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Pietra
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D015925:Cryopreservation; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000379:methods*; D012016:Reference Values; D013997:Time Factors