All of the following are pathologic features of brain in AIDS, EXCEPT:
Correct Answer: Vasculitis
Description: Pathologic features of brain in AIDS includes: Gross: Encephalitis: frontal /temporal coical atrophy Histology: Meningitis with mild lymphocytic infiltrates and scanty perivascular inflammation Features of giant cell (HIV) encephalitis are: Presence of microglial nodules Pericapillary aggregates of multinucleated giant cells having generous or scanty neoplasm Perivascular lymphocytic cuffing In leukoencephalopathy: there is diffuse diffuse demyelination and infiltration of macrophages and multinucleated giant cells. Ref: Neuropathology,A Volume in the High Yield Pathology Series (Expe Consult ... edited by Anthony T. Yachnis page 235.
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