Table 1. Grading of Huntington's disease [11].
Clinical evidence | Macroscopic anomalies | Microscopic anomalies | |
Grade 0 | Present | No | No |
Grade 1 | + | No | Moderate fibrillary astrocytosis |
Grade 2 | + | + caudate/putamen; - globus pallidus | + |
Grade 3 | + | The lateral segment of globus pallidus (fibrillary astrocytosis) | + |
Grade 4 | + | Shrunken caudate and small nucleus accumbens | + |