Subpial astrocytosis and focal leptomeningeal angiotropic astrocytosis leading to vascular compression: observations made in a case of mitochondrial encephalopathy
2008
Abstrakt
We performed standard histological, immunohistochemical, and ultrastructural examinations of formalin fixed samples of the brain (frontal cortex, brain stem, basal ganglia, and spinal medulla) of a male patient, aged 12, who succumbed to a mitochondrial disorder, characterized as MERRF (8344A > G).