Challenging the diagnosis of primary angiitis of the central nervous system: A single-center retrospective study

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1026-1034

  Néel, Antoine ^a   Auffray Calvier, Elisabeth ^b   Guillon, Benoit ^b   Fontenoy, Anne Maelle ^b   Loussouarn, Delphine ^b   Pagnoux, Christian ^c   Hamidou, Mohamed A ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^b NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Cerebral arterial diseases; Differential diagnosis; Intracranial vasospasm; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYPTOGENIC EMBOLISM; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY ANGIITIS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSIBLE CEREBRAL VASOCONSTRICTION SYNDROME; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COHORT STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860721237     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.110707     Document Type: Article

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