| Back to Homepage | Case 309 | Surgical Pathology Case |
| CLINICAL INFORMATION | ||
| 68 years old male, previously healthy. Recent onset of brief intermittent jerks of the right arm. This progressed to difficulty speaking and with simple tasks such as brushing his teeth, and eventually to generalized clonic jerking movements in all extremities and total aphasia. Negative HIV, heavy mental screen, liver function, and toxicology. EEG noncontributory. CT of the brain showed mild atrophy with no mass or hydrocephalus. He died two months later. | ||
| GROSS DESCRIPTION | ||
| The brain weighs 1155 grams, grossly normal with only a faint tan discoloration of the white matter, most prominent in the occipital lobe. | ||
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| HE, 10× | HE, 10× | |
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| HE, 10× | HE, 10× | |
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| HE, 20× | HE, 20× | |
| Source: AFIP, HQAP-2001-II-2 Photo: Zenggang Pan Discussion: Zenggang Pan | ||