Sheila Adey (somewhere in Canada) asks: Can anyone reccommend a good way to ink esophageal biopsies without using mercurochrome?
Out of many pathology services I've worked on, I've only seen one that marked GI biopsies when grossing. They used safranin O (the routine Gram stain counterstain, from the microbiology lab) and it worked quite well. I would not use eosin because it makes fluorescence microscopy impossible. You can't get mercurochrome any more (in the US anyway), and you don't want the mercury in your processor anyway. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Maryville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
