Cerebral amyloid angiitis progressing to generalized angiitis and leucoencephalitis

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 475-479

  Marotti, J D ^a   Savitz, S I ^a   Kim, W K ^a   Williams, K ^a   Caplan, L R ^a   Joseph, J T ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BETA SECRETASE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; AMYLOID BETA PEPTIDE RELATED ANGIITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VASCULITIS; BRAIN WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROHN DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ENCEPHALITIS; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROHN DISEASE; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULITIS;

EID: 34447129596     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2007.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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