Port-wine stain is a vascular malformation characterized pathologically by ectasia of superficial dermal capillaris and clinically by persistent macular erythema. The association of a port-wine stain on a limb with soft tissue swelling, with or without bony overgrowth, is termed klippel-Trenaunay syndrome. Phakomatosis pigmento-vascularis is a combination of port-wine stain and cutaneous ...

background : this study aimed to compare three staining methods including: calcofluor white, chromotrope and quick hot gram chromotrope used in diagnosis of intestinal microsporidial spores . methods : one hundred and seventy five stool specimens were collected from patients referred to laboratory of intestinal protozoology at the school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences d...