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Global Pathology Supercourse
DEMYELINATING DISEASES

Professor Walter R Timperley MA, DM, FRCPath.

Consultant Neuropathologist
Department of Neuropathology
Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Glossop Road, Sheffield, England
E-mail address : wrt@sheffield.ac.uk

Introduction
Anatomy
Classification of demyelinating diseases
Multiple sclerosis

1. Aetiology
2. Pathology
3. Histology
Variants of multiple sclerosis
Other demyelinating diseases
1. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
2. Central pontine myelinolysis
3. Chronic alcoholism
4. Progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy
5. Acute haemorrhagic leukoencephalopathy
6. Vitamin deficiencies
7. Metabolic diseases
8. Mitochondrial abnormalities