Amyloidosis Diagnosis

Diagnosis is via abdominal fat pad biopsy.
- easier and less morbid than biopsy of affected organ
- fat droplet place on glass slide and smeared to single layer
- sent air dried to lab for congo red staining which will allow pathologist to see amyloid deposits within fat

easiest to do an excisional biopsy of fat
core biopsy of fat also described.

http://www.amyloid.nl/investigations.htm