Corrosion Casting

Synonyms

Casting, Corrosion

Castings, Corrosion

Corrosion Castings

A tissue preparation technique that involves the injecting of plastic (acrylates) into blood vessels or other hollow viscera and treating the tissue with a caustic substance. This results in a negative copy or a solid replica of the enclosed space of the tissue that is ready for viewing under a scanning electron microscope.