Results suggested that it is feasible to use PFPE tissue for routine robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy surgical pathology diagnostics and immunohistochemistry, with the benefit of significantly improved DNA and RNA quality and RNA picogram yield per nucleus as compared with FFPE tissue.
Feasibility of Prostate PAXgene Fixation for Molecular Research and Diagnostic Surgical Pathology: Comparison of Matched Fresh Frozen, FFPE, and PFPE Tissue.
Högnäs G, Kivinummi K, Kallio HML, Hieta R, Ruusuvuori P, Koskenalho A, Kesseli J, Tammela TLJ, Riikonen J, Ilvesaro J, Kares S, Hirvikoski PP, Laurila M, Mirtti T, Nykter M, Kujala PM, Visakorpi T, Tolonen T, Bova GS.
Am J Surg Pathol. 2017 Oct 3. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000000961. PMID: 28984675
