Stains & CD markers
Elastic fibers
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Definition / general
- Also called Verhoeff-van Gieson
- Stains elastic fibers black
- Outlines elastic lamina of muscular arteries and media of aorta
- Background is trichrome
Microscopic (histologic) images
Contributed by Aliya N. Husain, M.D., José Tomás Peña, M.D. and Pablo Zoroquiain, M.D.
Giant cell arteritis
Temporal arteritis
Temporal arteritis
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Normal aorta
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