Inflammatory cerebral amyloid angiopathy: The overlap of perivascular (PAN-like) with vasculitic (Aβ-related angiitis) form: An autopsy case

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 335-347

  Szpak, Grazyna Maria ^a   Lewandowska, Eliza ^a   Śliwińska, Anna ^a   Stȩpień, Tomasz ^a   Tarka, Sylwia ^b   Mendel, Tadeusz ^a   Rafałowska, Janina ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c Mossakowski Research Medical Institute   (Poland)

Author keywords

A related angiitis (ABRA); CAA related inflammation; Electron microscopy; Immunochemistry; Inflammatory cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Overlapping syndrome

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; COLLAGEN FIBER; FIBRIN;

APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; CARDIOVASCULAR INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PERIVASCULAR INFLAMMATION; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VASCULITIS;

EID: 84455162082     PISSN: 16414640     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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