Novel Mutation in a Patient with Cholesterol Ester Storage Disease

Figure 2

(a) Liver biopsy, periodic acid-Schiff stain with diastase (magnification, ×40). Lipid demonstrated within the hepatocellular cytoplasm (arrows). (b) Electron micrograph (direct magnification, ×2500). The hepatocellular cytoplasm in places has a moth-eaten appearance with lipid droplets (arrows). Additionally, some foci show cholesterol crystals () free in the hepatocellular cytoplasm.

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