Pick body

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Introduction

Rounded silver-staining cytoplasmic inclusion in neurons in Pick's disease mostly, also corticobasal degeneration & some cases of FTDP-17. Components of Pick bodies include

More general terms

References

  1. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed. Fauci et al (eds), McGraw-Hill Inc. NY, 1998, pg 2352
  2. Ikeda et al. Acta Neuropathol 103:115-8, 2002