Special Stain I

Included Tests

Acid Fast Bacilli (Ziehl-Neelson: AFB); Grocotts Methenamine Silver (GMS); Hema-Diff (HEMA); Perodic Acid Schiffs: Fungus (PAS-F); Brown & Hopps (Gram); Wright's Giemsa (Giemsa: Wrights: Hemo); Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP)

Specimen Requirements

2 parafin sections

Transport And Storage

Ambient

Collection Instructions

 

Minimum Volume

Neonatal Volume

Reference Range:

Refer to Interpretive Pathology Report

Methodology:

• Chemical

CPT Coding

88312 per stain