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Histologic Procedures and Testicular Biopsy Freezing

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The purpose of this chapter is to describe the biopsy handling and histologic processing of testicular tissue. This chapter is intended to serve as a practical guide to performing routine procedures in the histopathologic examination and cryopreservation of the testicular biopsy specimen. Some basic staining and step-by-step laboratory procedures are described.

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  1. Department of Histology and Embryology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Šalata 3, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Andreja Vukasović M.D., Viviana Kozina MEd & Davor Ježek M.D., Ph.D.

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Vukasović, A., Kozina, V., Ježek, D. (2013). Histologic Procedures and Testicular Biopsy Freezing. In: Ježek, D. (eds) Atlas on the Human Testis. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2763-5_3

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