Postmortem brain examination confirmed gliomatosis cerebri and revealed a focal glioblastoma in the frontal cortex, with nuclear p53 expression in the highest malignant areas.
Imaging and postmortem brain examination confirmed low calorie intake prevented MPTP toxicity, with decreased presynaptic dopamine loss and greater presynaptic dopamine activity in left and right basal ganglia measured using PET scan.
A postmortem brain and lymphoreticular tissue autopsy examination remains critical to confirm the diagnosis.
A postmortem examination diagnosed a brain defect.
Ken Stabler, the former Oakland Raiders quarterback who died last summer of colon cancer, was found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy during a postmortem examination of his brain.
At that point, a postmortem examination of the brain could be done to look for the built-up clumps and tangles of beta-amyloid proteins, the overall shrinkage, and the loss of neurons in the brain's hippocampus that are, collectively, the hallmarks of Alzheimer's.
The present study is a histologic analysis of an postmortem examination series of brains collected from neonates born between 23 weeks gestation and term and is designed to determine if subependymal veins can be recognized in neonates born at the limits of viability, approximately 23 weeks gestation.
†Type A or B. Histologic examination of postmortem brain specimens showed diffuse neuronal loss, cortical thinning, and vacuolation of the gray matter of the cortices and deep nuclei accompanied by astrogliosis in cortex and subcortical white matter.
The examination of postmortem brain tissues from patients with AD and pathological findings such as neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques (as well as the expression of MMPs) only provides a postmortem confirmation of the diagnosis of AD.
27 In addition, some gene dose effects of the ApoE4 allele have been reported during examinations of the postmortem brain 28 and morphological features of the premorbid brain.
