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| areas of brain vulnerable to hypoxemia |
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| CA-1 of hippocampus, Purkinje cells of cerebellum, cortical neurons |
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| area of brain vulnerable to carbon monoxide poisoning |
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| areas of brain involved in PML (gray-white junctions) |
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| subcortical white matter (oligodendroglia) |
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| areas of brain involved in MS |
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| periventricular white matter |
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| Cowdry type A inclusions; dx? |
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| inclusions involved in aging |
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| Alzheimer type II; definition? |
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| astrocytic changes involving large vesicular nuclei and large glycogen droplets; seen in elevated plasma urea diseases and Wilson's |
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| Rosenthal fibers; definition? ddx? |
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| irregular eosinophilic fibers containing 2 HSPs (ab-crystallin and hsp27); ddx: fibrillary gliosis, pilocytic astrocytoma, Alexander's disease |
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| corpora amylacea; definition? ddx? |
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| round, lamellated bodies that are PAS+ and contain GAGs, located in subpia and astrocyte foot processes; ddx: Alexander's disease, aging |
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| 5 microglia responses to injury |
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| proliferation, nodules, rod cells, neuronophagia, phagocytosis |
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| slow bleed, initially lucid, slow decline, lesion in middle meningeal a.; dx? |
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| venous lesion, can last up to 2 wks; seen in alcoholics, elderly and shaken babies; dx? |
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1. triethyl tin poisoning causes...
2. lead poisoning causes... |
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1. cytotoxic edema
2. vasogenic edema |
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| compression of contralateral cerebral peduncle by herniating uncus causes false lateralizing sign; very rare |
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