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Histological stains Flashcards

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Fontana stain

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+ve for melanin- Melanoma

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Congo red

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+ve for amyloid- Amyloidosis
apple green birefringence

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Rhodanine stain

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Golden brown against blue counterstain +ve for copper
– Wilson’s disease

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Prussian blue

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+ve for iron – Haemachromatosis

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Perl’s stain

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+ve for iron – Haemachromatosis

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Cytokeratin

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+ve for epithelial cells – Carcinoma

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CD45

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+ve for lymphoid cells – lymphocytes

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Ziehl-Neelson

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Red against a blue background
+ve for acid-fast bacilli – TB

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Rhodamine-Auramine stain

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Bright yellow – TB

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Gomori’s methanamine silver stain

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Flying saucer shaped cysts – Pneumocystic jirovecii

Candida, Aspergillus

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Modified Kinyoung acid fast stain

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+ve for Cryptosporidium parvum

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India ink stain

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Yeast cells surrounded by halos – Cryptococcus neoformans

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Giemsa stain

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Cystoplasmic inclusions – Chlamydisa psittaci

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Fite stain

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+ve for Mycobacterium leprae

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Vimentin stain

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Mensenchymal tissue

Sarcomas, Endometrial Carcinoma, RCC, Meningioma

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S100

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Schwannoma, melanoma

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Desmin

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rhabdomyosarcoma (muscle cells)

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GFAP

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Neuroglia

Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma, Oligodendrogliomas, Ependymomas

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Chromogranin and synaptophsyin

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Neuroendocrine cells

Small cell lung cancer, carcinoid tumour

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Neurofilament stain

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neuronal tumours

neuroblastomas, medulloblastomas, retinoblastomas

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Periodic acid Schiff

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Intracytoplasmic globules of A1AT,

pneumocystitis

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