Perls' Prussian Blue is a histochemical method to detect bivalent iron, usually used to identify haemosiderine in tissue. Haemosiderine granules are stained blue, as can be seen in the tubular epithelial cells, in this case of renal haemosiderosis (100x).

 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
 
 
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