Sporadic cerebral amyloid angiopathy: An important cause of cerebral hemorrhage in the elderly

Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-91

  Bano, Shahina ^a   Yadav, Sachchida Nand ^b   Garga, Umesh Chandra ^b   Chaudhary, Vikas ^c  

^a G B PANT HOSPITAL   (India)

^b DR RAM MANOHAR LOHIA HOSPITAL   (India)

^c Employees' State Insurance Corporation ESIC Model Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; computed tomography; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DIURETIC AGENT; HEMOSIDERIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FRONTAL CORTEX; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRADIENT ECHO NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMOSIDEROSIS; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMOSIDEROSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 79955728619     PISSN: 09763147     EISSN: 09763155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0976-3147.80107     Document Type: Article

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