Significance of leukoaraiosis. Current status and differential diagnosis;Bedeutung der leukoaraiosis, Eine bestandsaufnahme und differentialdiagnostische abgrenzung

Nervenarzt

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 609-619

  Bischoff, Ch ^a   Von Einsiedel, Helga Gräfin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binswanger's disease; Dementia; Leukoaraiosis; Leukoencephalopathy; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

AGING; BINSWANGER ENCEPHALOPATHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKOARAIOSIS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DEMENTIA; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030771911     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001150050170     Document Type: Review

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