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Pontine Infarction With Diffuse Myelin Destruction
Author(s) -
Takahata Naohiko,
Suzuki Hidehiro,
Fukatsu Ryo,
Yoshimura Yokichi
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1978.tb00166.x
Subject(s) - gliosis , pathology , paraplegia , myelin , medicine , spastic , cerebral infarction , neuroscience , anatomy , spinal cord , ischemia , central nervous system , biology , cardiology , cerebral palsy , psychiatry
Summary A 5 7–year‐old man with clinical symptoms of dementia and spastic paraplegia revealed pathologically scattered cerebral arteriosclerotic changes and diffuse myelin destruction in the basis pontis. The latter was characterized by comcomitances with an eminent fibrous gliosis and a neuronal as well as an axonal loss. Pontine infarction and the following fibrous gliosis possibly caused a wide area of myelin destruction resembling cpm.