Pick's disease with Pick bodies: An unusual autopsy case showing degeneration of the pontine nucleus, dentate nucleus, Clarke's column, and lower motor neuron

Neuropathology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-89

  Oda, Tatsuro ^a   Tsuchiya, Kuniaki ^b   Arai, Tetsuaki ^c   Togo, Takashi ^d   Uchikado, Hirotake ^d   De Silva, Rohan ^e   Lees, Andrew ^e   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^c   Haga, Chie ^c   Ikeda, Kenji ^f   Kato, Motoichiro ^g   Kato, Yuji ^g   Hara, Tsunekatsu ^h   Onaya, Mitsumoto ^a   Hori, Koji ^g   Teramoto, Hiroshi ^a   Tominaga, Itaru ^a  

^a National Hospital Organization Shimofusa Psychiatric Medical Center   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN MATSUZAWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Jikei Institute of Psychiatry   (Japan)

^g KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h Komagino Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bulging eyes; Myoclonus; Pick body; Pick's disease; Tau; Topography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENTATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTONEURON; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 33846460412     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2006.00744.x     Document Type: Article

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