A 10-year-old boy with Marfan syndrome exhibiting cerebrovascular abnormalities

Brain and Development

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 251-254

  Kondo, Mayumi ^a   Itoh, Susumu ^a   Nagano, Keiko ^a   Namba, Masanori ^a   Kondo, Masatoshi ^a   Imai, Tadashi ^a   Onishi, Shoju ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular complications; Cranial magnetic resonance angiography; Elongation; Marfan syndrome; Tortuosity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHILD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0035011756     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(01)00203-0     Document Type: Article

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