Co-morbidity of moyamoya disease with Grave's disease. Report of three cases and a review of the literature

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 649-653

  Sasaki, Takahiro ^a   Nogawa, Shigeru ^a   Amano, Takahiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Graves' disease; Moyamoya; Thyrotoxicosis; TIA

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M; THYROID HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33745090242     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1543     Document Type: Article

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