Summary of pathological findings in the two cases
Case 1 | Case 2 | |
Macroscopic | ||
Posterior frontal lobe (BA 6,8) atrophy | +++ | +++ |
Frontal pole atrophy | + | + |
Precentral gyrus atrophy | + | ± |
Anterior cingulate gyrus atrophy | +++ | ++ |
Temporal pole atrophy | ++ | ++ |
Parahippocampal gyrus atrophy | ++ | + |
Hippocampal formation atrophy | ± | ± |
Parietal lobe atrophy | + | + |
Occipital lobe atrophy | + | − |
Substantia nigra depigmentation and atrophy | +++ | +++ |
Caudate atrophy | ++ | + |
Pallidal atrophy | + | + |
Thalamic atrophy | − | − |
Subthalamic nucleus atrophy | − | − |
Microscopic | ||
Ballooned achromatic neurons | +++ | +++ |
Tau+ve cytoplasmic neuronal inclusions2-150 | ++ | ++ |
Glial cytoplasmic inclusions | ++ | ++ |
Basophilic neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions2-151 | + | +++ |
Pale body neuronal cytoplasmic inclusions2-151 | ++ | ++ |