Technical advance

Tissue Harvester with Functional Valve (THFV): Shidham's device for reproducibly higher specimen yield by fine needle aspiration biopsy with easy to perform steps

Vinod B Shidham¹^*, Ashwini W Pandit, R Nagarjun Rao¹, Zainab Basir¹ and Anjani Shidham²

¹ Dept of Pathology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

² Bioinnovation LLC, Elm Grove, WI, USA

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BMC Clinical Pathology 2007, 7:2 doi:10.1186/1472-6890-7-2

Published: 7 March 2007

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Progression of prototype to working model. Details how the project progressed from prototype to working model.

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Schematic animation of sampling process with THFV. Animation demonstrating the sampling of tissue fragments with THFV.

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