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Prussian blue stain

A stain for ferric ion as in hemosiderin. Incubation with potassium ferrocyanide in acetic acid or dilute hydrochloric acid is followed by red counterstaining with safranin O or neutral red.

Related

prussian blue (Radiogardase)

Specific

microscopic observation in tissue by Prussian blue stain

General

tissue stain

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999