DIAGNOSTIC ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
Dr. E.O.  Hoffmann
   LSUHSC                        New Orleans Louisiana, USA              
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WR6, case # 83-5
Clinical information: 32 year old male with encephalitis (Autopsy Material).
Diagnosis. Brain biopsy. Herpes Virus Encephalitis.
Diagnostic features: Intranuclear, hexagonal viral particles (Arrows).

WR6, case # 84-1

Clinical information: 55 year old male with abdominal nodules. At laparatomy no primary found.
Diagnosis. Mesenteric nodule: Metastatic adenocarcinoma. Suggest intestinal primary. 
Diagnostic features: Intestinal type microvilli (with roots) (Large arrows); Glycocaliceal bodies (Small arrows).

WR6, case # 84-2

Clinical information: 32 year old male with encephalitis (Biopsy Material).
Diagnosis. Brain biopsy: Herpes Virus Encephalitis.
Diagnostic features: Intra nuclear, hexagonal viral particles (Arrows).

 

WR6, case # 84-3

Clinical information: 37 year old male with muscular weakness and progressive ophtalmoplegia
Diagnosis:. Deltoid muscle biopsy: Mitochondrial Myopathy.
Diagnostic features: Bizarre mitochondria with para-crystalline structures, micro tubular sworls, aberrant lamellar cristae (arrows).

 

 

WR6 , case # 84-4

Clinical information: 57 year old man with a para-sagittal mass of skull.
Diagnosis. Skull mass: Malignant lymphoma.
Diagnostic features: Plasmocytoid nucleus, no cell attachments, abundant ribosomes.