Routine histopathological disease analysis begins in a hospital when a surgeon takes a biopsy of patient tumor for example, biopsy of a suspicious mammography or suspicious polyp following colon polyp screening. The fresh tissue is then taken to the pathology lab where it is inspected, fixed, and ...
Patient Population Serum samples were obtained from the Epidemiology of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (EPI-NAFLD) database and specimen repository at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va. The EPI-NAFLD database-specimen repository was created by enrolling consecutive patients undergoing bariatric ...