Cerebral arteriopathy associated with Arg179His ACTA2 mutation

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Amans, Matthew R ^a   Stout, Charles ^b   Fox, Christine ^c   Narvid, Jared ^a   Hetts, Steven W ^a   Cooke, Daniel L ^a   Higashida, Randall T ^a   Dowd, Christopher F ^a   McSwain, Hugh ^a   Halbach, Van V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ARGININE; HISTIDINE; ACTA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ACTIN;

ACTA2 GENE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FALLING; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SLURRED SPEECH; SOMNOLENCE; COMPLICATION; GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MUTATION; NEUROIMAGING; STROKE;

EID: 84907938546     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2013-010997.rep     Document Type: Article

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