alzheimers

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Virtual Microscopy of Disease Entities

Disease Name:	Alzheimer's Disease
Other Names:	AD

Description

	Clinical:	Familial and sporadic forms of dementia characterized by prominent amnestic syndrome
	Neuropathological:	Frontal, parietal and temporal atrophy. Differentially distributed neuritic plaques and tangles with disposition of Aß amyloid

Virtual Microscopy

Site

Stain

Cortex & Hippocampus

Diagnostic Neuropathological Features:

Neurofibrillary tangles, plaques, granulovacuolar degeneration