Visible Virchow-Robin spaces on magnetic resonance imaging of Alzheimer's disease patients and normal elderly from the Sunnybrook dementia study

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 415-424

  Ramirez, Joel ^a,b   Berezuk, Courtney ^a,b   McNeely, Alicia A ^a,b   Scott, Christopher J M ^a,b   Gao, Fuqiang ^a,b   Black, Sandra E ^a,b,c  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; lacunes; perivascular spaces; small vessel disease; Virchow Robin; white matter hyperintensities

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALIDITY; VIRCHOW ROBIN SPACE; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN VENTRICLE; DURA MATER; PATHOLOGY; PIA MATER; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PIA MATER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84911879612     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-132528     Document Type: Article

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