Cerebral lesions in patients with connective tissue diseases and systemic vasculitides: Are there specific patterns: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1193, Issue , 2010, Pages 167-175

  Schedel, Joerg ^a   Kuchenbuch, Sonja ^a   Schoelmerich, Juergen ^a   Feuerbach, Stefan ^a   Geissler, Angela ^a,c   Mueller Ladner, Ulf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebral lesion; Connective tissue disease; Disease specific pattern; Systemic lupus erythematosus; Vasculitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; DNA ANTIBODY; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; THALAMUS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 77951234319     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05368.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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