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Electron microscopy picture of the myocardium with the interstitium showing cystine rectangular crystal (x 15,000).
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F1
Electron microscopy revealed rectangular intralysosomal crystals characteristic of cystine within interstitial histiocytes lying adjacent to myocytes (fig. 1).
Myocardium with the interstitial histiocytes with rectangular cystine crystal.
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F2
A single myocyte containing crystalline inclusions suggestive of cystine was identified (fig 2).