Krabbe disease, H&E stain x 100

uploaded on: Mar 29, 2009
by: jdmiles

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There are many globoid cells visible in this H&E-stained specimen of brain from a person who had Krabbe disease. Krabbe disease is also called globoid cell leukodystrophy because these cells are a hallmark feature of the disease. The unnecessarily large green arrow points to one of the globoid cells.

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