The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine . ar nucleus. This small broken stripwas very small in thickness as well as in breadth and about 1 cm. in caudate nucleus was very much shrunken but still compared with theregion of the lenticular nucleus it was well preserved and its fibres could beeasily distinguished. A transverse section in the region of the corpus striatumof both hemispheres of that part of the brain removed in the initial cuttingalong the Marie line of selection, showed very plainly the shrunken caudatenucleus and the dilatation of the anterior horn of the left v
The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine . ar nucleus. This small broken stripwas very small in thickness as well as in breadth and about 1 cm. in caudate nucleus was very much shrunken but still compared with theregion of the lenticular nucleus it was well preserved and its fibres could beeasily distinguished. A transverse section in the region of the corpus striatumof both hemispheres of that part of the brain removed in the initial cuttingalong the Marie line of selection, showed very plainly the shrunken caudatenucleus and the dilatation of the anterior horn of the left ventricle. On the right side the markings were still somewhat distinct and thelenticular nucleus showed a preservation of both the putamen and the globuspallidus. The external capsule was present without disintegration and in theinternal capsule, both in its anterior and posterior limbs, appeared to be normal. The cortex and white matter of the brain in general showed no abnor-mality. The convolutions in the region of the Island of Reil showed no. Fig- 4.—M. H. Brain. Horizontal section showing almost complete destruction of the left lenticularnucleus and a partial destruction of the right lenticular nucleus ; the caudate nucleus being much smalleron the left side with a dilatation of left ventricle. obvious change or disorder. There was no evidence of internal hydroceph-alus, no inflammation of the ependyma and there were no granulations in thefourth ventricle. The spinal cord showed no abnormality in its macroscopical appear-ance. Sections of the cord from the cervical, dorsal and lumbar regions showedno disturbance in the markings as far as could be observed. No disturbancewas noted in the meninges. Microscopical, Examination.—5//wa/ Cord.—Histopathologically an ex-amination of the various regions of the spinal cord showed no disorderin sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin and toluidin blue. It is un-fortunate that in the primary fixing sections were not taken to
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