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Table 2 The impact of the number of biopsy cores embedded into one paraffin block to the mean length of cores in the corresponding block 1

From: Length of prostate biopsies is not necessarily compromised by pooling multiple cores in one paraffin block: an observational study

No. of cores in paraffin block

n

Length of cores, mm (mean ± SD)

1

684

10.8 ± 1.8

3

8

12.9 ± 2.1

4

20

10.6 ± 2.7

5

75

11.0 ± 2.9

6

417

11.5 ± 2.4

7

40

11.8 ± 2.5

8

10

11.5 ± 2.1

9

2

11.1 ± 1.2

  1. 1The length of biopsies was not correlated to the number of cores in the block, r = 0.015.
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BMC Clinical Pathology

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