A case report of cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related inflammation treated with cyclophosphamide

Clinical Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 46-51

  Hagiwara, Yuta ^a   Yanagisawa, Toshiyuki ^a   Atsumi, Chihiro ^a   Maki, Futaba ^a   Shimizu, Takahiro ^a   Hasegawa, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein E; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy related inflammation; Cyclophosphamide

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; STEROID;

AGED; AKINETIC MUTISM; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENOTYPE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGED; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES;

EID: 84892768902     PISSN: 0009918X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5692/clinicalneurol.54.46     Document Type: Article

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