Progressive dementia and leucoencephalopathy as the initial presentation of late onset hereditary cystatin-C amyloidosis. Clinicopathological presentation of two cases

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 101-108

  Sveinbjörnsdóttir, Sigurlaug ^a   Blöndal, Hannes ^b   Gudmundsson, Gretar ^a   Kjartansson, Ólafur ^a   Jónsdóttir, Sif ^a   Gudmundsson, Gunnar ^a  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Angiopathy; Cerebral hemorrhages; Dementia; HCCA; HCHWA; Hereditary

Indexed keywords

CYSTATIN C;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030245783     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-510X(96)00094-9     Document Type: Article

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