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NEUROPATHOLOGY
Volume 25, Issue 2, Pages 165-170Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2005.00598.x
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argyrophilic grain disease; frontotemporal dementia; tauopathy
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A right-handed Japanese man with no consanguinity exhibited personality changes, speech disorder and abnormal behaviors, such as stereotypical, running-away, environment-dependent, and going-my-way behaviors, since the age of 49 years. At age 52 years, neuropsychological examination revealed frontal lobe dysfunctions, mild memory impairment, and transcortical sensory aphasia. MRI showed symmetrical severe atrophy of the anterior part of the temporal and frontal lobes. The clinical diagnosis was FTD. He died at age 54 years after a clinical illness of approximately 5 years. Numerous argyrophilic grains were observed throughout the limbic system, temporal lobe, frontal lobe and brainstem. In addition, there were many tau-positive neurons and glial cells. These findings are all compatible with argyrophilic grain disease (AGD). Our case, however, is atypical AGD because of the young age of onset of the disease and sharply circumscribed cortical atrophy exhibiting severe neuronal loss and gliosis. Our case, together with some other similar cases of atypical AGD, gives rise to the possibility that this type of AGD would constitute a part of pathological background of FTD.
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