The relationship of arterial hypertension to intracranial saccular aneurysms: Histometric assessment of the role of hemodynamic stress in terms of arterial medial hypertrophy

Neuropathology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 181-185

  Ohtoh, Takashi ^a   Iwasaki, Yuzo ^b   Suzuki, Hiroyoshi ^c   Namba, Yoshio ^d  

^a National Hospital Organization Fukushima Hospital   (Japan)

^b MIYAGI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^d Departments of Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circle of Willis; Histometric analysis; Hypertension; Local hemodynamic stress; Resistance vessels; Saccular aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SCHOOL CHILD; STRESS; THICKNESS;

EID: 0030664997     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.1997.tb00035.x     Document Type: Article

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