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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol. 2010 Dec;36(7):661–672. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2010.01101.x

Table 1. Neuropathologic assessment of vascular lesions.

Area Lesions Methods
Thalamus Lacunes Macroscopy
Luxol-van Gieson (LVG)
Basal ganglia Lacunes Macroscopy
LVG
White matter Lacunes

Demyelination
Diffuse gliosis
Macroscopy
LVG
LVG
Globus silver impregnation
Gray matter
(Hippocampus, temporal, frontal,
parietal and anterior cingulate
cortex)
Cortical microinfarcts
Focal cortical gliosis
Globus silver impregnation