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Washington University Experience | NEURODEGENERATION | NBIA1 (PKAN, Hallervorden-Spatz Dz) | 3A1 Case 3 MAP_08A copy
At autopsy, the unfixed brain weighed 1,290g. ---- There is mild atrophy of the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes and moderate dilatation of the lateral ventricles with small hippocampi. The globus pallidus is shrunken and rust discolored. The prolongation of the substantia nigra in the region of the subthalamus is depigmented.