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Hirano body (photomicrograph)

Oil immersion photomicrograph of CA1 region of hippocampus illustrating Hirano body (eosinophilic rod) between two neurons and granulovacuolar degeneration of two neurons (right upper and left lower corners). (x312.5) (Contributed by Dr. David Geldmacher.)

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