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Created on Thursday, February 14 2013 by gliageek

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The histopathological abnormalities seen within the cerebellar molecular layer in this high power photomicrographs is most characteristic of which is a following diseases?

 
        A) Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
 
        B) Rabies encephalitis.
 
        C) Parkinson's disease
 
        D) Alzheimer's disease
 
        E) Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease
 

 


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A) Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

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Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy is characterized by intranuclear inclusions within astrocytes and oligodendroglial cells.  (See References)

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B) Rabies encephalitis.

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In patients with rabies encephalitis, Negri (or lyssa) bodies may be seen within the cytoplasm Of Purkinje cells.  (See References)

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C) Parkinson's disease

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Lewy bodies are intracytoplasmic inclusions.  (See References)

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D) Alzheimer's disease

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Patients with Alzheimer's disease may show immunoreactivity for amyloid within the cerebellar molecular layer, but do not show plaques within the cerebellar granule cell layer. In addition, senile plaques in Alzheimer disease do not show peripheral radiations.  (See References)

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E) Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

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About 10% of patients with sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease will show kuru plaques within the cerebellar granule cell layer  (See References)

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References:

1. Krasnianski, A., Schulz-Schaeffer, W.J., Kallenberg, K., Meissner, B., Collie, D.A., Roeber, S., Bartl, M., Heinemann, U., Varges, D., Kretzschmar, H.A., and Zerr, I. (2006). "Clinical findings and diagnostic tests in the MV2 subtype of sporadic CJD." Brain, 129(Pt 9) 2288-96. (PMID:16720682)
2. Sikorska, B., Knight, R., Ironside, J.W., and Liberski, P.P. (2012). "Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease." Adv Exp Med Biol, 724 76-90. (PMID:22411235)
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Basic Neuropathology 8
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