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INTRACYTOPLASMIC ROD‐LIKE INCLUSIONS IN CAUDATE NUCLEUS
Author(s) -
KAWANO N.,
HOROUPIAN D. S.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
neuropathology and applied neurobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.538
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1365-2990
pISSN - 0305-1846
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1981.tb00102.x
Subject(s) - caudate nucleus , hyaline , pathology , chronic alcoholism , inclusion bodies , medicine , cytoplasmic inclusion , nucleus , anatomy , cytoplasm , biology , psychiatry , biochemistry , escherichia coli , gene
A number of intraneuronal inclusion bodies have been described as incidental findings, but the intraeytoplasmic rod‐like inclusions in the caudate nucleus are not widely known. They were called ‘alcoholic hyaline‐like bodies’, because they were first reported in two patients with chronic alcoholism and the inclusions were likened to Mallory bodies of alcoholic liver. However, we have found that their prevalence was not significantly different in alcholics with or without liver damage, in individuals with miscellaneous neurological disorders and in a control group of patients without neurological or hepatic disease. It was therefore concluded that these inclusions represent a non‐specific finding.