CNS Pathology Index
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The following images are present:
CNS Hemorrhage
- Germinal matrix hemorrhage with intraventricular hemorrhage in 28 week gestational age newborn, gross
- Germinal matrix hemorrhage, low power microscopic
- Basal ganglia hemorrhage with hypertension, gross [CT]
- Basal ganglia hemorrhage with hypertension, gross [CT]
- Epidural hematoma, gross [CT]
- Subdural hematoma, acute, gross [CT]
- Bridging veins from dura, gross [CT]
- Subdural hematoma, bilateral, chronic, gross [CT]
- Cerebral arterial circulation and aneurysms, diagram
- Cerebral artery, berry aneurysm, gross
- Ruptured intracranial berry aneurysm, gross [ANGIO]
- Circle of Willis with multiple berry aneurysms, gross
- Berry aneurysm, sectioned, gross [CT,MRI]
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage, base of brain, from ruptured berry aneurysm, gross [CT]
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage from ruptured berry aneurysm, gross
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage, gross
- Brain, parietal lobe, vascular malformation, gross [ANGIO]
- Brain stem, vascular malformation on section, gross
- Intracerebral and intraventricular hemorrhage from ruptured vascular malformation, gross
- Vascular malformation, microscopic [CT]
- Vascular malformation, microscopic [MRI]
- Intracerebral hemorrhage with overdose of cocaine, gross
- Inferior frontal and temporal lobes, contracoup injury, contusions and subarachnoid hemorrhage, gross
- Inferior frontal lobes, contracoup injury, contusions, gross [CT]
- Inferior frontal lobes, contracoup injury, contusions, gross
- Inferior frontal lobes, remote contusions, gross
- Inferior frontal lobes, remote contusions, gross
- Brain, coronal section, contusions and lacerations with blunt force trauma, gross
- Pons, Duret hemorrhages, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, white matter petechiae with fat embolism syndrome, gross
Infarction
- Pons, lacunar infarct, gross
- Lacunar infarct, microscopic
- Cerebrum, coronal section, acute cerebral infarct, gross [ANGIO]
- Cerebrum, coronal section, acute watershed infarct, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, subacute to remote infarct, gross
- Internal carotid artery, thrombosis, recent, gross [ANGIO]
- Cerebral thromboembolization process, GIF animation [ANGIO]
- Cerebral artery, thromboembolus, microscopic
- Cerebrum, coronal section, subacute infarct, gross [MRI]
- Cerebrum, coronal section, hemorrhagic infarct, from arterial embolus, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, hemorrhagic infarct, from arterial embolus, gross [MRI]
- Cerebrum, acute infarction, microscopic
- Cerebrum, acute infarction with anoxic injury to neurons, microscopic [CT]
- Cerebellum, anoxic injury to Purkinje cells, microscopic
- Cerebrum, coronal section, subacute infarct with edema and midline shift, gross.
- Cerebrum, subacute to remote infarct, microscopic
- Cerebrum, remote infarct, microscopic [CT]
- Cerebrum, coronal section, remote infarct, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, remote infarct, with atrophy of cerebral peduncle, gross
- Medulla, coronal section, pyramidal atrophy following cerebral infarction, gross
- Cerebrum, brain stem, Wallerian degeneration, high power microscopic
- Cerebrum, cerebral palsy, axial MRI scan
Edema and Herniation
- Cerebrum, coronal section, edema, gross
- Cerebrum, external view, edema, gross
- Cerebrum, uncal herniation from edema, gross
- Cerebrum, uncal herniation from edema, gross
- Cerebellum, tonsillar herniation from edema, gross
- Pons, Duret hemorrhages, gross
Infections
- Cerebrum, external view, vertex, acute bacterial meningitis, gross [MRI]
- Cerebrum, external view, vertex, acute bacterial meningitis, gross
- Cerebrum, external view, vertex, acute bacterial meningitis, gross
- Cerebrum, external view, base, acute bacterial meningitis, gross
- Cerebrum, acute bacterial meningitis, gross
- Cerebrum, acute bacterial meningitis, medium power microscopic
- Cerebrum, acute bacterial meningitis, gram stain
- Infected subdural hematoma, gross
- Cerebrum, cysticercus cyst, microscopic [MRI]
- Aspergillosis with hemorrhage, gross
- Aspergillosis with vascular invasion, microscopic
- Cerebrum, viral encephalitis, low power microscopic [MRI]
- Cerebrum, temporal lobe, Herpes simplex virus infection with hemorrhages, gross
- Cerebrum, microglial nodule with toxoplasma pseudocysts [CT]
- Cerebrum, amebic encephalitis [CT]
- Cerebrum, abscess, gross [CT,MRI]
- Cerebrum, abscess, microscopic, Trichrome stain [MRI]
- Cerebrum, coronal section, hydrocephalus, gross [CT]
- Cerebrum, spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, medium power microscopic [MRI]
- Cerebrum, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), gross [MRI]
- Cerebrum, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), microscopic [MRI]
- Cerebellum, Negri body with rabies, medium power microscopic
- Cerebrum, malaria, high power microscopic
Congenital Malformations
- Cerebrum, coronal section, lissencephaly, gross
- Arnold-Chiari malformation, gross
- Dandy-Walker malformation, gross
- Anencephaly, gross
- Anencephaly, gross
- Anencephaly, area cerebrovasculosa, low power microscopic
- Meningomyelocele, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, holoprosencephaly, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, alobar holoprosencephaly, gross
- Cerebrum, semilobar holoprosencephaly, gross
- Cerebrum, hydranencephaly, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, tuberous sclerosis, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, tuberous sclerosis, gross
- Cerebrum, external view, tuberous sclerosis, gross
Acquired and Congenital Degenerative Diseases
- Cerebellum, anterior vermian atrophy, gross
- Cerebrum, mammillary bodies, Wernicke disease, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, multiple sclerosis, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, multiple sclerosis, gross [MRI]
- Spinal cord with nerve roots, atrophy with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, gross
- Spinal cord, loss of anterior horn cells with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), microscopic
- Spinal cord, lateral column degeneration with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), gross
- Spinal cord, lateral column degeneration with gliosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), microscopic, Luxol fast blue stain
- Cerebrum, mucopolysaccaridosis, microscopic
- Cerebrum, Tay-Sachs disease, high power microscopic
- Cerebrum, Tay-Sachs disease, Luxol fast blue stain, medium power microscopic
- Cerebrum, swollen neuron with a storage disease (SanFilipo type), high power microscopic
- Neuronophagia, microscopic
- Cerebrum, coronal section, pseudolaminar necrosis, gross [NM]
- Cerebrum, carbon monoxide poisoning, gross
Dementias
- Cerebrum, external view, atrophy with Alzheimer disease, gross
- Cerebrum, composite external views, atrophy with Alzheimer disease, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, atrophy with Alzheimer disease, gross
- Cerebrum, Alzheimer disease, plaque, microscopic, Bielschowsky silver stain
- Cerebrum, Alzheimer disease, plaque, microscopic, Bielschowsky silver stain
- Cerebrum, Alzheimer disease, plaque, microscopic, Congo red stain
- Cerebrum, Alzheimer disease, plaque, microscopic, Bielschowsky silver stain
- Cerebrum, Alzheimer disease, senile plaques and amyloid angiopathy, thioflavin fluoresecent stain, microscopic
- Cerebrum, Alzheimer disease, tangle, microscopic, H&E stain
- Cerebrum, Alzheimer disease, tangle, microscopic, H&E stain
- Cerebrum, Alzheimer disease, tangle, microscopic, Bielschowsky silver stain
- Cerebrum, external lateral view, atrophy with Pick disease, gross [CT]
- Cerebrum, external vertex view, atrophy with Pick disease, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, atrophy with Pick disease, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, caudate atrophy with Huntington disease, gross
- Cerebrum, caudate nucleus with neuronal loss and gliosis, medium power microscopic
- Midbrain, normal and abnormal with Parkinson disease compared, gross
- Midbrain, normal pigmented neurons at left and decreased neurons with decreased pigmentation with Parkinson disease at right, high power microscopic
- Lewy bodies, H&E stain at left and immunoperoxidase with antibody to ubiquitin at right, high power microscopic
- Multi-infarct dementia, composite gross
Neoplasms
- Meningioma, parasagittal, gross [MRI]
- Meningioma, parasaggital, gross [MRI]
- Meningioma with cerebral compression, gross [MRI]
- Meningioma, sphenoid ridge, gross
- Meningioma, resected, gross
- Meningioma, low power microscopic
- Meningioma, medium power microscopic
- Meningioma, high power microscopic
- Ependymoma in fourth ventricle of posterior fossa, sagittal section, gross [MRI]
- Cerebrum, horizontal section, fourth ventricle with ependymoma, gross [CT]
- Ependymoma, high power microscopic [IPX]
- Ependymoma, myxopapillary type, medium power microscopic
- Cerebellum, medulloblastoma, gross
- Medulloblastoma, microscopic
- Cerebellum, cystic astrocytoma, gross
- Peripheral nerve, schwannoma, gross
- Acoustic nerve schwannoma, gross [MRI]
- Acoustic nerve schwannoma, gross
- Schwannoma, low power microscopic
- Schwannoma, high power microscopic [IPX]
- Cerebrum, coronal section, glioma with mass effect, gross [MRI]
- Brainstem, external view, glioma, gross
- Brainstem, sagittal section, glioma, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, glioma, gross [MRI]
- Glioma, low power, microscopic [PATH]
- Cerebrum, astrocytoma, medium power microscopic [IPX]
- Astrocytoma with satellitism, high power microscopic
- Cystic astrocytoma with Rosenthal fibers, high power microscopic
- Cerebrum, coronal section, glioblastoma multiforme, gross
- Cerebrum, transverse section, glioblastoma multiforme, gross [MRI]
- Glioblastoma multiforme, high power microscopic
- Glioblastoma multiforme, high power, microscopic [IPX]
- Glioblastoma multiforme, medium power, microscopic
- Oligodendroglioma, high power, microscopic [MRI]
- Cerebrum, coronal section, metastasis, gross [MRI]
- Cerebrum, coronal sections, metastases, gross [MRI]
- Cerebrum, carcinomatous meningitis, gross and microscopic [MRI]
Miscellaneous
- Cerebellum, dermoid cyst, gross
- Colloid cyst of third ventricle, gross [CT]
- Choroid plexus cysts, lateral ventricle, gross
- Cerebrum, coronal section, "Swiss cheese" brain artefact, gross
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