Normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH): Ischaemia, CSF stagnation or both

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 947-948

  Silverberg, Gerald D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APRAXIA; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; EDITORIAL; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MANOMETRY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMOTENSIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REM SLEEP; TISSUE INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; DEMENTIA; GAIT APRAXIA; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS, NORMAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 2442483947     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh178     Document Type: Editorial

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