Routine Special Stains

FFPE Kinyoun's Acid Fast (AFB) 

Acid Fast Bacteria - Bright Red / Background - Light Blue 

FFPE Alcian Blue   

Acidic Mucosubstances - Bright Blue / Cytoplasm - Pink to Pale Red 

FFPE Bielschowsky  

Plaques - Brown to Black / Tangles - Black / Background - Yellow to Brown  

FFPE Cresyl Echt Violet

FFPE Luna's Eosinphil Stain 

Degranulating Eosinophils - Red / Background - Pale Blue

FFPE Gomori's Iron   

Iron Pigments - Bright Blue / Nuclei - Red / Cytoplasm - Pink 

FFPE Grocott's Methenamine Silver (GMS) 

Fungi - Black / Background - Green 

FFPE Luxol Fast Blue + H & E

Myelin - Blue / Cytoplasm - Pink / Nuclei - Purple

FFPE Mayers Mucicarmine 

Mucin - Bright Magenta / Nuclei - Black / Background - Yellow 

FFPE Russell - Movat Pentachrome  

Nuclei and Elastic Fibers - Black / Collagen - Yellow / Ground Substance and Mucin - Blue / Fibrinoid, Fibrin - Intense Red / Muscle - Red 

FFPE Prussian Blue 

Iron (Ferric Form) - Bright Blue / Background - Red

Sample Image Courtesy of - Xuefei Huang Lab

FFPE PASH

Carbohydrates and Mucoproteins - Pink to Fuchsia / Background - Purple to Blue

FFPE Steiner 

Spirochetes - Black / Background - Yellow

FFPE Verhoeff-Van Gieson  

Elastic Fibers - Blue-Black to Black / Nuclei - Blue to Black / Collagen - Red / Other Tissue Elements - Yellow