Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a National Football League player: Part II

Neurosurgery

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1086-1092

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy; National Football League; Professional football players

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; ETHYLENE GLYCOL;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FOOTBALL; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPIL THREAD; PALLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33845217439     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000245601.69451.27     Document Type: Article

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