Special stains may be requested when a patholgist or researcher needs to see stains demonstrating a specific substance such as, but not limited to: connective tissues, carbohydrates/mucoproteins, lipids, pigments/minerals, organisms, and nucleoproteins. Special stains can be requested on paraffin tissue blocks (slides produced by the VDL Histotechnology laboratory) or precut slides (slides made by another laboratory and sent to the VDL).
Special Stains
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Acid Fast - Fite Faraco |
Acid Fast - Kinyoun's |
Acid Fast - Lipofuchsin |
Alcian Blue pH 2.5 |
Chitosan |
Churukian-Schenk |
Congo Red |
Copper - Rhodanine |
Fontana-Masson (Argentaffin/Melanin) |
Giemsa |
GMS - Grocott's Methenamine Silver |
Gram - Brown-Hopps |
Grimelius |
Hall's |
Holmes |
Iron - Prussian Blue |
JMS - Jone Methenamine Silver |
Luxol Fast Blue |
Mayer's Mucicarmine |
Melanin Bleach |
Oil Red O (Frozen sections) |
PAS (Periodic Acid Schiff's) |
PAS with Amylase Digestion |
PASH (Periodic Acid Schiff's with Hematoxylin) |
PTAH (Phosphotungstic Acid Hematoxylin) |
Reticulin - Gordon & Sweets |
Rickettsia - Pierce VanderKamp |
Toluidine Blue |
Trichrome - Masson's |
VanGieson's |
Verhoeff's (Elastin) |
VonKossa's (Mineral) |
Warthin Starry (Bacteria/Spriochetes, Leptospirosis, Tyzzers) |