Muscle Biopsy – Gomori’s Trichrome pH 3.4

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Specimen Requirements

Fresh or frozen muscle tissue, or 1 frozen section charged slide per test, plus 3-4 additional frozen section slides, all cut at 10 microns.

Diagnostic Utility

This one-step trichrome stain combines a plasma stain (chromotrope 2R) and a connective fiber stain (fast green fcf) in a phosphotungstic acid solution. It is used in muscle staining.