Stains & CD markers
Elastic fibers
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PubMed Search: Elastic fibers [title] stain
Elastic fibers
Author: Nat Pernick, M.D.
Last author update: 1 June 2005
Last staff update: 4 October 2024
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PubMed Search: Elastic fibers [title] stain
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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
