Cognitive impairment and cellular/vascular changes in the cerebral white matter

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 826, Issue , 1997, Pages 92-102

  Pantoni, Leonardo ^a   Garcia, Julio H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030700385     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48463.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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