Heather,
Short answer: if you do a good trichrome on normal muscle tissue you'll be fine.
Ragged red fibers describe muscle that has abnormal concentrated areas of
mitochondria - they show as large red areas within the muscle fiber. However,
if you do a normal muscle and can see the mitochondri
I have request to implement this stain for frozen muscle in OCT blocks. The
pathologist is looking for demonstration of ragged red fibers, however it is my
understanding (very limited) that this (in this circumstance) is a diagnostic
stain and the tissue on hand that I will be using for develop
Administrators rule of thumb: If there is free space in Histology, they are
taking up too much space!
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LOL I think if you have to ask then there isn't enough room!
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Well, if it's more than 2.5 sq. ft per tech, we're out of compliance :)
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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
