[Histonet] Effects of Inking on Special stains or IHC

[Matt Brooks]

Hello All,

One of my pathologists asked the following question.  "Does inking
tissue effect special staining or IHC results?"  I replied that I had
never heard of this and not to my knowledge.  I thought that if the
chromagen was the same color of the dye then there could be some
difficulty in deciphering between the two.  Therefore, I am wondering if
anyone has experienced a problem.

Matt Brooks, BS, HT (ASCP)
Histology Supervisor
InCyte Pathology
mbrooks <@t> incytepathology.com
509-892-2744