The First Autopsy-Proven Case of CSF1R-Related Leukoencephalopathy Harboring the p.Cys774Arg Mutation
Hiroyuki Hatsuta1,2,3, Akitoshi Takeda3, Tomomi Fujita3
1Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
We report the first autopsy-proven case of colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF1R)-related leukoencephalopathy harboring the CSF1R mutation c.2320T>C (p.Cys774Arg). The patient, a man in his 40s, exhibited progressive neuropsychiatric symptoms with predominant frontal white matter lesions and corpus callosum atrophy. Neuropathological examination revealed frontal-predominant demyelination with a relatively low number of axonal spheroids compared with typical cases, as well as the absence of intracranial calcifications. In addition, prominent cerebral amyloid angiopathy was observed despite an APOE ε3/ε3 genotype. These findings expand the clinicopathological spectrum of CSF1R-related leukoencephalopathy and highlight variability in pathological features associated with different CSF1R mutations.


