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Inclusion body myositis, trichrome stain, low-power.

Last updated on Tuesday, April 28 2009 by gliageek

Inclusion body myositis, trichrome stain, low-power.

On trichrome stained frozen muscle, vacuoles are also associated with reddish granular material.

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IBM trichrome with highlighted rimmed vacuoles

IBM trichrome with highlighted rimmed vacuoles
This is a Gomori trichrome stain of skeletal muscle. The patient has inclusion body myositis (IBM). Note that most of the muscle fibers look pretty normal. However, there are a couple of fibers (encircled by the thick red line) which contain numerous rimmed vacuoles...

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