Ginat cell arteritis with bilateral obstruction of the internal carotid artery - Report of an autopsy case

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 323-328

  Inafuku, Tetsuya ^a,c   Watanabe, Mitsuyasu ^a   Takagi, Makoto ^a   Hoshino, Haruhiko ^a   Morinaga, Shojiroh ^a   Koto, Atsuo ^b  

^a SAISEIKAI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Internal carotid artery; Multiple cerebral infarction; Temporal arteritis (giant cell arteritis)

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DROWSINESS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GIANT CELL ARTERITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASE; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

AGED; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; FEMALE; HUMANS; TEMPORAL ARTERITIS;

EID: 0031830358     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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