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Danish neurologist Knud Haraldsen Krabbe (1885-1961)

In 1916, Krabbe first described what is now known as globoid cell leukodystrophy or Krabbe disease. (Courtesy of the US National Library of Medicine. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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  • Adult globoid cell leukodystrophy
  • Diffuse brain-sclerosis
  • Diffuse gliosis
  • Early infantile globoid cell leukodystrophy
  • Juvenile globoid cell leukodystrophy
  • Late infantile globoid cell leukodystrophy
  • Leukodystrophy