Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player

Neurosurgery

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 128-133

  Omalu, Bennet I ^a   DeKosky, Steven T ^b   Minster, Ryan L ^b   Kamboh, M Ilyas ^b   Hamilton, Ronald L ^a   Wecht, Cyril H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy; National Football League; Retired professional football players

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INJURY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FOOTBALL; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 21744449747     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000163407.92769.ED     Document Type: Article

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