Ultrastructural connective tissue abnormalities in patients with spontaneous cervicocerebral artery dissections

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 281-285

  Brandt, Tobias ^a,b   Hausser, Ingrid ^a   Orberk, Erdem ^a   Grau, Armin ^a   Hartschuh, Wolfgang ^a   Anton Lamprecht, Ingrun ^a   Hacke, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; BIOPSY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COLLAGEN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0031830287     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410440224     Document Type: Article

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