Zeil Neelson and Wade-Fite stains to demonstrate medlar bodies of chromoblastomycosis

Abstract

The characteristic fungal bodies of chromoblastomycosis, known as Medlar bodies, are visualized as golden brown rounded bodies in routine hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained tissue sections of the skin (Fig. 1). We report a hither to undocumented staining pattern of Medlar bodies that will be useful when they are not identified in routine H&E stains, in cases with a high index of clinical suspicion.........