Acknowledgements
This free course was written by David Male.
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Figure 6: with kind permission of Dr Dimitri P. Agamanolis, M.D.
Figure 7: courtesy of Dr Eva Del Valle Suarez.
Figure 10: © David Male.
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We are especially grateful to Peter Mooney for his tour around the histopathology department at Milton Keynes Hospital.
Interactive
For providing slides to examine in the Virtual Microscope, special thanks goes to:
Cambridge University, Department of Pathology
University of Leicester
King’s College Hospital, London
University College Hospital, London
Milton Keynes Hospital, Department of Histopathology
All other organisations who have donated to the OpenScience Laboratory.
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