title: Intracellular acidic mucins and their identification in diagnostic cytology.
abstract: Exfoliative, abrasive and aspiration cytology were increasingly relied upon for tissue diagnosis of tumours. The established histological stains for the differentiation of mucin and non-mucin-secreting tumours are not ideal for alcohol-fixed cytology smears and a more reliable cytological technique for the preservation and staining of intra-cellular acidic mucins using Alcohol Alcian Blue 8GX is presented.
mesh_terms: D003581:Cytodiagnosis / Q000379:methods*; D006652:Histological Techniques; D006801:Humans; D009077:Mucins / Q000032:analysis*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000032:analysis; D013194:Staining and Labeling
chemical_list: D009077:Mucins