Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cortical microinfarcts as putative substrates of vascular dementia

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 681-687

  Haglund, Mattias ^a   Passant, Ulla ^a   Sjöbeck, Martin ^a   Ghebremedhin, Estifanos ^b   Englund, Elisabet ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebrovascular disorder; Hispathology; Neuropathology

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARIETAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHENOTYPE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 33746463940     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1550     Document Type: Article

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