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Fig. 1 Barrett’s intestinal metaplasia in human esophagus stained with the improved zirconyl hematoxylin and counterstained with methylene green. The purple-stained goblet cells stand out even at low magnification. Scale bar = 200μm.

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Fig. 2 Serial section adjacent to the section in Fig. 1, stained with alcian blue and kernechtrot. Scale bar = 200μm.

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Fig. 3 Barrett’s intestinal metaplasia in human esophagus stained with the improved zirconyl hematoxylin and counterstained with methylene green. Scale bar = 50μm.

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Fig. 4 The same area as figure 3, bleached with alcoholic HCl and restained with alcian blue and kernechtrot. The same cells are stained. Scale bar = 50μm.

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