Category: Neuropathology

  • Peripheral Nerve Pathology Guide

    Quick answer: Peripheral nerve pathology is easiest to learn by asking whether the axon or the myelin is the primary target. Axonal injury ends in…

    Peripheral Nerve Pathology Guide
  • Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

    A patient on natalizumab develops weakness in one arm, and MRI shows white matter lesions. Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy pathology explains the link: JC virus infects…

    Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
  • Astrocytes in Neuropathology Explained

    A slide shows dense pink, corkscrew-shaped deposits in glial processes. In astrocytes in neuropathology, that pattern means Rosenthal fibers, and abundant subpial and perivascular deposits…

    Astrocytes in Neuropathology Explained
  • Cerebral Edema and Brain Herniation

    A swollen brain at autopsy with a grooved uncus or a displaced cingulate gyrus shows the main brain herniation types at work: five are described,…

    Cerebral Edema and Brain Herniation
  • Neuropathology Course

    A neuropathology course works best when you start with the cells and normal histology, then move through injury, infection, tumors and neuromuscular disease. Choose your…

    Neuropathology Course
  • Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Pathology

    Finding Supported detail Planning use Shortest damaging window Ischemia lasting 4-5 minutes can irreversibly damage hippocampal and neocortical pyramidal cells, striatal neurons and Purkinje cells.…

    Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy Pathology