Elastic fibers

Stains
Elastic fibers

Author: Nat Pernick, M.D.

Topic Completed: 1 June 2005

Minor changes: 5 March 2019

Copyright: 2002-2015, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.

PubMed Search: Elastic fibers [title] stain

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Definition / general | Microscopic (histologic) images

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Definition / general

Also called Verfoeff-van Gieson
Stains elastic fibers black
Outlines elastic lamina of muscular arteries and media of aorta
Background is trichrome

Microscopic (histologic) images

Normal aorta