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15〜22年にわたる長く緩徐な臨床経過と特異な神経病理所見を示した老年期痴呆の1例を報告した。経過を通して記銘記憶障害が突出しており,言語その他の機能は比較的に保たれ,末期に至るまで高度の痴呆はなかった。神経病理所見では海馬領域で高度の,扁桃核,視床下部,脳幹領域には散在性の神経原線維変化があり,その分布パターンはアルツハイマー型老年痴呆に一致していた。しかし大脳等皮質ではNFTの出現は稀であった。特徴的なことは,老人斑が極めて少なく,前頭葉低面と内側域を中心に少数散在するのみであり,神経原線維変化と老人斑の分布域の相違が目立った。この症例はアルツハイマー型老年痴呆の軽度例の範疇に属すると考えられるが,その経過と病理所見が非定型的であり,この疾患がヴァリエーションに富むことを示している。
We describe the autopsy finding in a male patient with senile dementia of unusually prolonged total duration, who had exhibited atypical neuropatho-logic findings. During clinical course, memory dis-turbance had been more prominent than deteriora-tion of other cognitive functions. Neuropathologic examination revealed neurofibrillary changes which were prominent in the hippocampal region and scattered in the amygdala and in the predilection sites of the hypothalamus and brain stem. This distributional pattern was that in Alzheimer-type dementia. The most characteristic finding was scanty senile plaques, which were scattered predom-inantly in the basal and medial portion of the frontallobe. Although the clinical course and pathological findings of this case were in slight degree and deviat-ed from those in usual senile dementia, it is thoughtthat the entity in this case was dementia of the Alzheimer-type.
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