CCD COX with arrow

uploaded on: Sep 14, 2008
by: jdmiles

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This is a muscle biopsy, stained for cytochrome oxidase. The unnecessarily large red arrow shows an area of pallor in the center of a muscle fiber. This is the characteristic pathology seen in central core disease (CCD)

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