Lewy and his inclusion bodies: Discovery and rejection

ABSTRACT Fritz Jacob Heinrich Lewy described the pathology of Paralysis agitans [Parkinson disease] and was the first to identify eosinophilic inclusion bodies in neurons of certain brain nuclei, later known as Lewy bodies, the pathological signature of the Lewy body diseases.In 1912, he published his seminal study, followed soon after by an update

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