Vascular and Alzheimer-type pathology in an autopsy study of African-Americans

Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 433-435

  Pytel, P ^a,e   Cochran, E J ^b   Bonner, G ^b,c   Nyenhuis, D L ^b,c   Thomas, C ^d   Gorelick, P B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; AGED; BRAIN; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 33646182620     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000196472.93744.57     Document Type: Article

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