SERVICES OFFERED ROUTINE HISTOPATHOLOGY • Corneal dystrophies, infections and non-neoplastic diseases • Inflammatory, immunological and infectious lesions of the ocular surfaced • Abnormalities of the lens • Non-neoplastic lesions of the retina and choroid • Orbital infections and inflammation • Ocular oncology - ocular surface tumors, eyelid tumours, intra-ocular tumours, orbital tumours IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY • Lymphoma panel • Soft tissue tumour panel • Metastatic carcinoma panel • Small round cell tumour panel • Neuroendocrine tumour panel • Apoptosis and proliferation markers CYTOLOGY • Cerebrospinal fluid • Vitreous biopsies and cassette fluid • Aqueous humour • Impression cytology for ocular surface tumours • Fine needle aspiration cytology RAPID DIAGNOSIS • Frozen section • Intra-operative cytology SPECIAL STAINS • Periodic acid Schiff (PAS) • Gomori methanamine silver (GMS, Grocutt) • Gram’s stain (Bacteria) • ZN Stain (AFB) • Alcian blue (Macular dystrophy) • Mason’s trichrome (Granular dystrophy) • Congo red (Amyloid, Lattice dystrophy) • Oil red O (Fat, Sebaceous gland carcinoma) • Pearls stain (Iron) MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS • FISH • ISH • PCR PROGNOSTIC FACTORS • Ki-67 • p53 • Mismatch repair gene proteins ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
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