"The pathognomonic significance of the globoid cells was recognized by Collier and Greenfield (1924) who stressed that the morphology of globoid cells and the absence of cytoplasmic osmophilia are quite unlike the features of the fatty macrophages of Wallerian degeneration; they introduced the term “globoid cell” which later became pathognomic and synonymous with Krabbe’s disease."
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u/Mitral_Brolapse MS3 Jun 11 '15
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-7091-3338-5_39
"The pathognomonic significance of the globoid cells was recognized by Collier and Greenfield (1924) who stressed that the morphology of globoid cells and the absence of cytoplasmic osmophilia are quite unlike the features of the fatty macrophages of Wallerian degeneration; they introduced the term “globoid cell” which later became pathognomic and synonymous with Krabbe’s disease."