pictures

my pictures

ED.FREIDLANDER.MD /BRIAN LEE.MD

This is a section of skeletal muscle examined by Congo Red stain under polarizers. You can see the green amyloid around the small blood vessel in the perimysium.

Heart, showing the apple green birefringence

from cornell university below

Amyloidosis of the left atrial endocardium

Cross section of amyloid myocardium stained with Lugol's iodine solution.

Amyloid deposition (green birefringence) in tongue. Congo red. Polarizing microscopy

http://tray.dermatology.uiowa.edu/Amyloid-mac001.htm