Review: Role of cerebral vessels in ischaemic injury of the brain

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-55

  Ogata, J ^a   Yamanishi, H ^a   Ishibashi Ueda, H ^b  

^a Hirakata General Hospital for Developmental Disorders   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Brain ischaemic injury; Cerebral artery; Pathology; Small vessel disease

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN;

ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY BIFURCATION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY; CRIBRIFORM; DISORIENTATION; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; EROSION; ERYTHROCYTE; GRAY MATTER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; HYALINE DEGENERATION; HYPERTENSION; INFARCTION; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DOLICHOECTASIA; INTRACRANIAL BRANCH ATHEROMATOUS DISEASE; LACUNAR INFARCTION; LIPOHYALINOSIS; MICROANEURYSM; MICROATHEROMA; MOYAMOYA DISEASE; NECROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONBACTERIAL THROMBOTIC ENDOCARDITIS; PONTINE NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUPTURE; SEGMENTAL ARTERIAL DISORGANIZATION; STRIATOCAPSULAR INFARCT; STROKE; THROMBOCYTE AGGLUTINATION; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBUS; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSELS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERIES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MYOCARDIUM; NECROSIS; STROKE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 78651094744     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2010.01141.x     Document Type: Article

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