A 66-Year-Old Woman with a Progressive, Longitudinally Extensive, Tract Specific, Myelopathy

Figure 3

Histologic sections of spinal cord demonstrate extensive white matter pathology. (a) Low-power photomicrograph of spinal cord with dorsal column and lateral white matter degeneration (original magnification, ×20; hematoxylin-eosin [H-E] stain); (b) low-power photomicrograph of spinal cord stained with Luxol fast blue-periodic acid Schiff (LFB-PAS) histochemistry to demonstrate loss of myelinated axons (original magnification, ×20; LFB-PAS stain).

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