Reversible coma with raised intracranial pressure: An unusual clinical manifestation of CADASIL

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 188-192

  Feuerhake, F ^a   Volk, B ^a   Ostertag, C B ^a   Jungling, F D ^a   Kassubek, J ^a   Orszagh, M ^a   Dichgans, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CADASIL; Electron microscopy; Notch 3; Raised intracranial pressure

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; VASCULAR LESION; WHITE MATTER;

COMA; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036943093     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010100439     Document Type: Article

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