Fine needle aspiration biopsy to reestablish cell culture in an animal model of uveal melanoma Biópsia aspirativa com agulha fina para restabelecer cultura celular em modelo animal de melanoma uveal

PURPOSE: To access the reliability of fine-needle aspiration biopsy in harvesting a sufficient amount of viable melanoma cells to establish a cell culture and maintain a melanoma cell line from an animal model of uveal melanoma. METHODS: For this study, fifteen male New Zealand albino rabbits had th...

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Main Authors: Zelia Maria da Silva Correa, Jean-Claude Marshall, João Pessoa Souza Filho, Alexandre Nakao Odashiro, Miguel Noel Burnier, Jr.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Conselho Brasileiro de Oftalmologia 2009-08-01
Series:Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-27492009000400015