An autopsy case of senile dementia suspected to be influenced by cerebral amyloid angiopathy with multiple cortical microinfarcts

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 651-655

  Iwasaki, Yasushi ^a   Mori, Keiko ^a   Ito, Masumi ^a   Deguchi, Akira ^a   Shiraishi, Taizo ^b   Mimuro, Maya ^c   Yoshida, Mari ^c   Hashizume, Yoshio ^c  

^a Oyamada Memorial Spa Hospital   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Cortical microinfarct; Dementia; Psychiatric symptom; Watershed zone

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

AGED; AGITATION; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CAPILLARY WALL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DELIRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPANESE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENILE DEMENTIA; SENILE PLAQUE; SPINAL CORD; THALAMUS; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 78049341901     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.50.651     Document Type: Article

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