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 Hematoxylin and Eosin
  Bielschowsky
  Aß amyloid
  Phospho-tau

Diagnostic Neuropathological Features: Neurofibrillary tangles, plaques, granulovacuolar degeneration