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Test ID: Elastic Van Gieson Stain
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Elastic Van Gieson Stain
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Useful For
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To demonstrate pathologic changes in elastic fibers. These include atrophy of the elastic tissue; thinning or loss that may result from arteriosclerotic changes; and reduplication, breaks, or splitting that may result from other vascular diseases. The techniques also may used to demonstrate normal elastic tissue, as in the identification of veins and arteries, and to determine whether or not the blood vessels has been invaded by tumor.
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Method name and description
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Verhoeff's Elastic Stain. The tissue is overstained with a soluble lake of hematoxylin-ferric-chloride-iodine. Both ferric choloride and iodine serve as mordants, but they also have an oxidizing function that assists in converting hematoxylin to hematein.
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Specimen type / Specimen volume / Specimen container
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Specimen type: Any well-fixed tissue in 10% neutral buffered formalin.
Specimen volume/ Specimen container: Submit 3-4 µm paraffin embedded tissue section mounted on a clean glass slide.
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Storage and transport instructions
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- Slides are stored in slide box at room temperature.
- Follow your local regulation shipping guidelines.
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Specimen Rejection Criteria
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- Broken slides
- Unlabeled slides with patient/case identification
- Contaminated slides
- Slides/Paraffin blocks mismatch
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Factors affecting test performance and result interpretation
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- Specimen fixation. Well-fixed specimens can produce consistent chemical and physical characteristics in tissue sections which allows patterns to be observed, morphological and chemical changes to be noted and comparisons made. These observations allow view of a dynamic ever-changing environment “fixed” at a particular point in time and may enable a histopathological diagnosis.
- Paraffin section thickness. Microscopic analysis of cells and tissues requires the preparation of very thin, high quality sections (3-4 µm) mounted on a clean glass slides and appropriately stained to demonstrate normal and abnormal structures.
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Turnaround time / Days and times test performed / Specimen retention time
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Turnaround time: 3 hours
Days and times test performed: Once daily (Sunday to Thursday @0700-1500)
Note: Request received after 1100H will be run/stained the following working day.
Specimen retention time: 10 years
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