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Washington University Experience | BASIC PROCESSES | Senile Plaques | 1 Senile plaque, neuritic type, with neurofibrillary tangle (Case 1) H&E

Although often special stains are used to demonstrate the extent of involvement of brain neurodegenerative processes, an H&E stain often demonstrates pathologic structures as in the senile plaque (blue arrow) and neurofibrillary tangle (red arrow) shown here (H&E)

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