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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Forensic Sci. 2010 Mar 15;55(3):642–645. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01347.x

TABLE 1.

Medical Examiner cases with significant neuropathological lesions.

ID # Age Phf1
NFT/
Thio-S
PL/
Thio-S
Tdp43
Possible
NP DX
CA EC CA EC CA EC CA EC
18 74 3 3 3 3 2 3 0 0 AD
29 66 2 3 3 2 3 3 0 0 AD
59 79 3 2 2 2 2 3 2 0 AD
60 91 3 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 AD
63 72 3 3 2 2 2 2 0 0 AD
64 80 2 3 2 3 2 2 0 0 AD
65 83 2 3 2 2 2 3 0 0 AD
95 89 3 3 3 3 2 3 0 0 AD
96 73 3 3 2 2 3 3 0 0 AD
12 77 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tau
24 79 3 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 Tau
62 58 3 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 Tau
77 83 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 Tau

0,1,2,3 represent degree of pathology. Phf1 (paired helical filaments), TDP-43: pathology visualized by immunohistochemistry with antibody against tau or TDP-43.

Thio-S, pathology visualized by Thio-S histochemistry; CA, cornu ammonis; EC, entorhinal cortex; PL/Thio-S, plaques with Thioflavin-S reactivity; AD, Alzheimer's disease; NFT, neurofibrillary tangles; Tau, frontotemporal lobar degeneration tauopathy; Tdp43, Tar DNA-binding protein-43.