Multiple cerebral infarcts with a few vasculitic lesions the chronic stage of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation

Neuropathology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 551-556

  Sakai, Kenji ^a,b   Hayashi, Shintaro ^a   Sanpei, Kazuhiro ^c   Yamada, Masahito ^b   Takahashi, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Sado General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

A ; CAA related inflammation; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Cerebral infarct; PR3 ANCA

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN CONVERTING ENZYME 2; CORTICOSTEROID; HEMOSIDERIN; MYELOBLASTIN; MYELOPEROXIDASE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; FLEXION CONTRACTURE; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMATOUS VASCULITIS; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; JAPANESE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENINX DISORDER; MORTALITY; MUTISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEOCYTOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

AGED; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; AUTOPSY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MYELOBLASTIN; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; SPINAL CORD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84866603797     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2011.01283.x     Document Type: Article

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