Neuropathology — Flashcards

Sturge-Weber syndrome is a developmental anomaly of _____ derivatives due to somatic mosaicism

_____ to a site of CNS or PNS axon injury there is retrograde degeneration

Earliest autolytic changes occur in _____ tissues and in brain

_____ is a CNS tumor that arises from epithelial remnants of Rathke's pouch (oral ectoderm)

What is the prognosis of glioblastoma multiforme? _____

Tabes dorsalis is a progressive demyelination of the _____ and dorsal roots

_____ disseminates upon reaching the blood vessels, resulting in ring enhancing brain lesions

Hint: Which complication of Aspergillus fumigatus

In response to axon damage, the neuron cell body undergoes _____, which is the swelling of the cell body and dispersion of Nissl substance (chromatolysis)

_____ are microscopic nodular collections of glial cells at abnormal locations, often in the superficial and deep layers of cerebral cortex seen in neurofibromatosis type 2

There is loss of _____ and granule cells from the cerebellum in ataxia telangectasia