The body of a 68-year-old homeless man arrives at the medical examiner"s office for autopsy. No clinical history is known. Examination of the spinal cord is performed. Which of the following findings and diagnoses are correctly paired?
In a Facebook poll of 55 respondents, 58.2% chose “A. Degeneration of the anterior horns and corticospinal tracts; the man had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”. How we count
A. Degeneration of the anterior horns and corticospinal tracts; the man had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
58.2%32
E. Degeneration of the anterior horns; the man had tertiary syphilis
20%11
D. Degeneration of the posterior columns and corticospinal tracts; the man had polio
9.1%5
C. Degeneration of the posterior columns; the man had syringomyelia
7.3%4
B. Degeneration of the anterior white commissure; the man had Guillain-Barré syndrome
5.5%3
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