Non-traumatic recurrent dissection and its spontaneous repair in the circle of Willis: Report of two autopsy cases

Neuropathology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 195-198

  Ohtoh, Takashi ^a,f   Ono, Yasuki ^b   Iwasaki, Yuzo ^c   Sakurai, Yoshiharu ^d   Nishino, Akiko ^d   Arai, Hiroaki ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyoshi ^d   Namba, Yoshio ^e  

^a South Miyagi Medical Center   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Intracranial arterial dissection; Mucoid degeneration; Multiple recurrence; Spontaneous repair

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CIRCULUS ARTERIOSUS; CASE REPORT; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INTIMA; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; ANEURYSM, FALSE; BRAIN; CIRCLE OF WILLIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0141869014     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1789.2003.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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