Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related leukodystrophy: A case report

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 585-588

  Iwanaga, Takeshi ^a,b   Kaneko, Nobuyuki ^a   Nishimura, Hirotake ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Okayama Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyloid angiopathy; Leukodystrophy; Microbleeds

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

AGED; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LEUKODYSTROPHY; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; LYMPHOMA; SKIN BIOPSY; SOMNOLENCE; SUBCORTEX; THETA RHYTHM; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; PULSE THERAPY, DRUG; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865290734     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.52.585     Document Type: Article

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