Multiple system atrophy with remarkable frontal lobe atrophy

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 423-428

  Konagaya, Masaaki ^a   Sakai, Motoko ^a   Matsuoka, Yukihiko ^a   Konagaya, Yoko ^b   Hashizume, Yoshio ^c  

^a SUZUKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b JR Tokai General Hospital   (Japan)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frontal lobe atrophy; Glial cytoplasmic inclusion body; Multiple system atrophy; Progressive aphasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DYSAUTONOMIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; OLIVOPONTOCEREBELLAR ATROPHY; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSONISM; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; BRAIN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; NEUROGLIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032972290     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051008     Document Type: Article

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