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In 1986 Ernst Ruska was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work in the development of the electron microscope. The electron microscope, with its power of resolution, opened up the smaller new world of biology. Its diagnostic utility in anatomic pathology was contested by advanced immunohistochemical and molecular genetic techniques in recent’years. The electron microscope still remains a useful tool in selected instances of tumor diagnosis and renal biopsy interpretation. The main contribution of the electron microscopy has been and will continue to be to the understanding of the structure-function relationships at the subcellular level
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Yum, MN., Goheen, M.P. (2002). Diagnostic Electron Microscopy. In: Cheng, L., Bostwick, D.G. (eds) Essentials of Anatomic Pathology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-162-6_4
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