TY - JOUR AU - Price, Donald L. AB - TH E AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY Reprinted from TECHNICAL BULLETIN OF THE Copyright © 1965 b y Th e Williams & Wilkins Co. REGISTRY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGISTS Vol. 44, No. 4 Printed in U.S.A. Vol. 35, No. 9, 1965 A NEW TRAY FOR IMPROVED GIEMSA STAINING OF BLOOD FILM S DONALD L. PRICE , MAJOR, MSC, USA Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D. C. $0805 Many modifications for staining blood signed on which 24 blood films could be films with Romanowsky's stains have been stained inverted, in a minimum of space. made to improve the quality and consist­ The tray was constructed of transparent ency of results. The method of staining Lucite with a base (1 in Fig. 1) tha t was thick blood films with Giemsa, with the 133^ in. in length by 7 in. in width by Y% in. film side down, after a 1-sec. dip in a meth­ in thickness. The sides (2) were made of ylene blue phosphate solution, as recom­ strips 13 ^ by ^ by Y in. At one end was mended by Walker, has several advantages. a strip (8) 6% by ^ by Y in. At the other The methylene TI - A New Tray for Improved Giemsa Staining of Blood Films JF - American Journal of Clinical Pathology DO - 10.1093/ajcp/44.4_ts.482 DA - 1965-10-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/a-new-tray-for-improved-giemsa-staining-of-blood-films-qh6pA0MHRO SP - 482 EP - 484 VL - 44 IS - 4_ts DP - DeepDyve ER -