[Neuropathology of Inflammatory and Autoimmune-Mediated Diseases]
1Department of Clinical Laboratory and General Internal Medicine, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP) National Center Hospital.
Abstract:
Herein, the author summarize the basic findings on the neuropathology of inflammatory and autoimmune central nervous system (CNS) diseases. Current knowledge on infectious, demyelinating, and autoimmune diseases have also been reported. Further, I emphasize the importance of considering the neuropathology of meningitis, encephalitis, and abscesses as infectious diseases; multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica as demyelinating diseases; and vasculitis, paraneoplastic neurological syndrome, and collagen diseases as autoimmune diseases.
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