Watershed infarction associated with dementia and cerebral atrophy

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 163-168

  Hashiguchi, Shuji ^a   Mine, Hideki ^a   Ide, Makoto ^a   Kawachi, Yasunori ^a  

^a TAKAMATSU RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carotid artery; Cerebral atrophy; Cerebral infarction; Dementia; Watershed infarction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEMIPARESIS; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PATHOGENESIS; RATING SCALE;

ATROPHY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; HUMANS; INFARCTION, ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034015633     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.2000.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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