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Congo red · Urinary tract · open case 11

Pathological anatomy · Urinary

Amyloid deposits in the glomeruli stained red with Congo red show the characteristic apple green birefringence under polarized microscopy. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article. ).
Amyloid deposits in the glomeruli stained red with Congo red show the characteristic apple green birefringence under polarized microscopy. (For interpretation of the references to…

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PreviousH&E · Urinary tract · open case 12
Category
Urinary
Difficulty
advanced
Type
Clinical microscopy
Mode
Congo red
Stain
Congo red

Origin: MultiCaRe · figure from open-access article PMC6297111 · License CC BY

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