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| − | *[[Pigmentation - Pathology#Lipofuscin|'''Lipofuscin''']]
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| − | **Wear and tear pigment accumulating in secondary lisosomes -> converted into compact residual bodies
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| − | **Due to old age, past or recent cachexia or starvation
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| − | **Mostly stored in skeletal muscle of old high producing dairy cattle
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| − | **Masseters and diaphragm mainly involved
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| − | **No clinical importance
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| − | **Histologically:
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| − | ***Rounded yellow to brown granules at both poles of nucleus of the skeletal myofiber
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| − | *[[Pigmentation - Pathology#Melanin|'''Melanin''']]
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| − | **As part of congenital melanosis of calves in fascial sheaths and epimysium
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| − | **Grossly - black foci
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| − | *'''Myoglobin'''
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| − | **After extensive muscle necrosis - '''rhabdomyolysis'''
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| − | **Leaks to adjacent tissue after sudden injury
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| − | *May also be present after some types of intramuscular injections e.g. iron dextran or tetracycline
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| − | [[Category:Muscles - Degenerative Pathology]]
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