Table 2.

Neuropathologic diagnoses of tau false-positive cases

^aAll cases with multiple ischemic lesions more than 1/2 cm except for 2 with diffuse ischemia.

^bTwelve cases of Alzheimer disease, 2 cases of cerebellar degeneration, 1 case of thalamic degeneration with mild cortical involvement, and 1 case of frontotemporal dementia.

^cOne case of granulomatous encephalitis, one case of Cryptococcus meningoencephalitis (both with multiple areas of necrosis), one case with large and destructive perivascular lymphocyte infiltrates, and one case of unspecified encephalitis with infarcts.