Histological stains Flashcards by Rakhitha Katangodage

Fontana stain

+ve for melanin
Melanoma

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Congo red + apple-green birefringence

+ve for amyloid
Amyloidosis

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Rhodanine stain

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

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Prussian blue stain

+ve for iron
Haemochromatosis

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Perl’s stain

+ve for iron
Haemochromatosis

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Cytokeratin

+ve for epithelial cells
Carcinoma

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CD45

+ve for lymphoid cells
lymphocytes

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Ziehl-Neelsen

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

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Rhodamine-Auramine stain

Bright yellow
TB

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Gomori’s methanamine silver stain

Flying saucer shaped cysts
Pneumocystis jirovecii

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Modified Kinyoung acid fast stain

+ve for Cryptosporidium parvum

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India ink stain

Yeast cells surrounded by halos
Cryptococcus neoformans

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Giemsa stain

Cytoplasmic inclusions
Chlamydia psittaci

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Fite stain

+ve for mycobacterium leprae

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