Pick dis·ease

(pik),

progressive circumscribed cerebral atrophy; a rare type of cerebrodegenerative disorder manifested primarily as dementia, in which there is striking atrophy of portions of the frontal and temporal lobes. Synonym(s): Pick syndrome

[F. Pick]

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Pick disease

Variant of Pick's disease¹.

Pick dis·ease

(pik di-zēz')

Progressive circumscribed cerebral atrophy; a rare type of cerebrodegenerative disorder manifested primarily as dementia, in which there is striking atrophy of portions of the frontal and temporal lobes.

[F. Pick]

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Pick,

Friedel, German physician, 1867-1926.

Pick atrophy - Synonym(s): Pick disease

Pick bodies - intracytoplasmic argentophilic inclusion bodies seen in neurons in Pick disease.

Pick disease - a rare type of cerebral degenerative disorder manifested primarily as dementia. Synonym(s): Pick atrophy; Pick syndrome; progressive circumscribed cerebral atrophy

Pick syndrome - Synonym(s): Pick disease

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These corticobasal bodies can be stained with Gallyas, are tau-4R immunoreactive, and are found mostly in the frontal and parietal cortex, in contrast to Pick bodies in Pick disease. A dominant, and in the case of CBD a characteristic, finding are numerous Gallyas- and tau-immunoreactive threads in the neuropil of affected gray matter structures and adjacent white matter.

Pick disease showing granular neurons of the dentate fascia of the hippocampus with tau- immunoreactive cytoplasmic inclusions (a).

Current Concepts in the Classification and Diagnosis of Frontotemporal Lobar Degenerations: A Practical Approach

The rest of the 23.07% cases were storage disorders which included Neimann Pick disease and Gaucher's disease.

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