Electron microscopy in bone tumor diagnosis.

Abstract

Recent developments in electron microscopy in the field of clinical pathology have illustrated a firmly established role for the electron microscope in the routine of diagnostic pathology. It will not and cannot displace the optical microscope as a diagnostic tool, however, and so light and electron microscopic examinations of biopsy material are complementary. Whereas the light microscope enables us to examine a wide area of the specimen, electron microscopy with its greater resolution adds important details, that facilitate and substantiate the correct differential diagnosis.