images II Flashcards

Edematous white matter. The empty spaces represent interstitial fluid.

Edema highlighted by leakage of blood pigments around an adjacent hemorrhagic tumor. The tumor is not seen in the picture.

Papilledema.
The edematous optic papillae protrude forward into the vitreous chamber.

Reactive (gemistocytic) astrocytes around a cerebral infarct. These cells form scar tissue in the CNS.

Hippocampal neuronal loss post-HIE.
The right hippocampus is atrophic and has lost a stretch of the pyramidal layer between the asterisks.
The left hippocampus is normal

Hippocampal sclerosis.
Glial scarring of the sclerotic hipocampi is revealed by the Holzer stain.

Cerebral autolysis. The nonperfused (respirator) brain.

The nonperfused (respirator) brain. Radionuclide injection shows no signal in the brain
The key factor that converts selective neuronal necrosis to total tissue necrosis is probably lactic acidosis.

Bland infarct
Acute infarct
Swelling and early disintegration of the infarcted area.

“Hemorrhagic infarct” in the ACA territory.
NOT cerebral hemorrhage
d/t reperfusion injury

Bilateral lacunar infarcts in the basal ganglia

small vessel disease
Homogenous change of vessel walls d/t HTN and/or DM
can also be d/t amyloid-> congo red +

widespread white-matter hemorrhages characteristic of bone marrow or fat embolisms
usually follows long bone fractures

Hypertensive hemorrhage in the basal ganglia and thalamus with intraventricular rupture. After formalin fixation, the blood clot appears black.

Hypertensive pontine hemorrhage

AVM. A tangle of abnormal vessels.

arteriovenous malformations

Sturge -Weber syndrome CT. Cerebral atrophy and calcification.

Sturge-Weber syndrome. Abnormal vessels in the subarachnoid space.

calcifications of vessels in sturge-weber syndrome

Hypertensive encephalopathy, hematoxylin and eosin: fibrinoid necrosis of a small artery.(not homogeneous, like in chronic HTN)

papilledema of HTN encephalopahty

Lobar hemorrhage from cerebral amyloid angiopathy

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Beta amyloid immunostain.