We studied 29 specimens of bone tumours with different histopathological diagnoses and found no evidence of microsatellite instability.
However, difficulties encountered during testing and the limited supply of specimens of bone resulted in unequal numbers of femoral heads in each group at the end of testing.
In addition to obtaining deep cultures during the debridement, specimens of bone and soft tissue for histological and pathological analysis can also be helpful.
First, the femoral head was cut into three 5 mm thick slab specimens of bone and cartilage in the coronal plane with the greatest possible diameter.
There are numerous data over the last 20 years characterizing age, gender, and anatomic differences in cadaveric specimens of bone [ 13, 45, 52, 64, 67, 68, 94].
In a group of 29 patients with JIS and AIS, specimens of bone, cartilage, paravertebral muscles were harvested at the both sides of the curve apex together with peripheral blood samples.
These tissues included untrimmed specimens of bones (jaw, skull, ribs, scapulae, clavicles, femur/tibia, vertebrae) along with isolated lungs, lymph nodes, salivary glands, and soft tissues such as brain, liver, pancreas, uterus, kidney and adrenals.
When testing any excised specimen of trabecular bone, an unavoidable experimental artifact originates from the sides of the specimen where peripheral trabeculae lose their vertical load-bearing capacity due to interruption of connectivity, a phenomenon denoted here as the 'side-artifact'.
