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Ethical and technical considerations for the creation of cell lines in the head & neck and tissue harvesting for research and drug development (Part II): Ethical aspects of obtaining tissue specimens

Tahwinder Upile1,2,3*, Waseem Jerjes1,3, Panagiotis Kafas4, Sandeep U Singh1, Jaspal Mahil1, Ann Sandison5, Colin Hopper1,3 and Holger Sudhoff6

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1 Head & Neck Centre, University College London Hospital, London, UK

2 Head and Neck Department, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK

3 Department of Surgery, University College London Medical School, London, UK

4 Department of Oral Surgery and Radiology, School of Dentistry, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

5 Department of Histopathology, Imperial College & Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK

6 Department of Otolaryngology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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International Archives of Medicine 2009, 2:9 doi:10.1186/1755-7682-2-9

Published: 3 April 2009

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