Overview

• Nordic immunohistochemical quality control

• A Novel Quality Control Slide for Quantitative Immunohistochemistry Testing

• Specificity Controls for Immunocytochemical Methods

• Tissue microarrays: a new approach for quality control in immunohistochemistry

• Considerations on development, validation, application, and quality control of immuno(metric) biomarker assays in clinical cancer research: an EORTC-NCI working group report

• Quality assurance in immunohistochemistry: results of an interlaboratory trial involving 172 pathologists

• Audit and internal quality control in immunohistochemistry

• The taming of immunohistochemistry: the new era of quality control

• Quality control in immunohistochemistry. Report of a workshop sponsored by the Biological Stain Commission

• External evaluation of technical quality of immunohistochemistry. Results of a preliminary multicenter study. Immunohistochemistry Commission of the French Association of Quality Assurance in Pathology and Cytology (AFAQAP-IHC)

• Quality assurance and standardization in immunohistochemistry

• Multitumor "sausage" blocks in immunohistochemistry. Simplified method of preparation, practical uses, and roles in quality assurance

• Intralaboratory quality assurance of immunohistochemical procedures. Recommended practices for daily application

• Reflections on the use of controls in immunohistochemistry and proposal for application of a multitissue spring-roll control block

Applications

• Technical variations in prostatic immunohistochemistry: need for standardisation and stringent quality assurance in PSA and PSAP immunostaining

• Quality assurance for detection of estrogen and progesterone receptors by immunohistochemistry in Austrian pathology laboratories

• Quality control for the immunohistochemical demonstration of oestrogen and progesterone receptors

• Recommendations for the immunohistochemical evaluation of hormone receptors on paraffin sections of breast cancer. Study Group on Hormone Receptors using Immunohistochemistry FNCLCC/AFAQAP. National Federation of Centres to Combat Cancer/French Association for Quality Assurance in Pathology

• A formalin-fixed, paraffin-processed cell line standard for quality control of immunohistochemical assay of HER-2/neu expression in breast cancer

• Increased use of immunohistochemistry for oestrogen receptor measurement in mammary carcinoma: the need for quality assurance

• Quality control in immunocytochemistry: experiences with the oestrogen receptor assay

• Quality control of immunohistochemical evaluation of tumour-associated plasminogen activators and related components. European BIOMED-1 Concerted Action on Clinical Relevance of Proteases in Tumour Invasion and Metastasis

• Some monoclonal antibody reagents (C219 and JSB-1) to P-glycoprotein contain antibodies to blood group A carbohydrate determinants: a problem of quality control for immunohistochemical analysis