Neuropathology

Neuropathology is the study of disease of nervous system, usually in the form of either small surgical biopsies or whole autopsies. Neuropathology is a subspecialty of anatomic pathology, neurology, and neurosurgery. Nerve disease may cause due to Vitamin deficiencies mainly B12 and other B vitamins, autoimmune neuropathy, infection, alcoholic neuropathy, toxins and poisons, tumors and trauma. The biopsy is usually requested after a mass is detected by radiologic imaging. The principal work of the neuropathologist is to examine biopsy tissue from the brain and spinal cord to aid in diagnosis of disease and other conditions that affect the central nervous system.

 

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