Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
A 70 year-old man with confusion and neurologic deterioration after a minor fall.
Clinical information: The patient was a 70 year-old man with a history of alcoholism, stenosis of the carotid arteries, hypertension, seizure, unstable gait and questionable dementia. He sustained a minor fall about two to three weeks ago and started to have confusion and neurologic deterioration. He died of sepsis about three weeks after the fall. Autopsy was restricted to the brain. Representative images are shown below:
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