An adult case of leukoencephalopathy with intracranial calcifications and cysts

Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1890-1892

  Corboy, John R ^a,b,c   Gault, Judith ^a   Kleinschmidt Demasters, B K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PREDNISONE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FIBER; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLIAL ACIDIC PROTEIN GENE; GLIOSIS; HEADACHE; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROSENTHAL FIBER; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM CYSTS; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEADACHE DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33845421928     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000244470.06748.18     Document Type: Article

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