title: Impact of confocal scanning optical microscopy on pathological practice.
abstract: This review outlines some recent advances likely to influence the hospital laboratory practice of light microscopy, a technique that remains the cornerstone of all surgical pathology. The principal advances are confocal scanning optical ('indirect view') microscopy, to which this short account is restricted, and tandem scanning ('direct view') microscopy.
authors.affiliation: University of Edinburgh.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Gardner
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oates
mesh_terms: D006652:Histological Techniques; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers; D008853:Microscopy / Q000379:methods*; D010337:Pathology Department, Hospital