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AIDS-related dementia: Pathology

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HIV-infected microglial nodules, and multinucleated giant cells, with reactive astrocytosis, characterize HIV encephalopathy. Here, mononuclear cells, stained in brown, form a perivascular inflitrate. In HIV encephalopathy, there is no infection of neurons or oligodendrocytes.

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Diseases: Dementia
Organ systems: Central Nervous System
ImageTypes: Gross and microscopic pathology

R. Du Pasquier, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland