A Pathologist Has Just Finished an Autopsy and Includes in Her

question 13

Multiple Choice

A pathologist has just finished an autopsy and includes in her report a reference to "Lewy bodies." This means that in her autopsy she has discovered

• A) senile plaques filled with protein.
• B) ballooning of nerve cells and enlarged areas between adjacent neurons.
• C) rounded clumps of protein surrounded by masses of destroyed neural tissue.
• D) rounded deposits in nerve cells often found in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease.