The significance of cortical cerebellar microbleeds and microinfarcts in neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases:

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 138-143

  De Reuck, Jacques L ^a   Deramecourt, Vincent ^a   Auger, Florent ^a,d   Durieux, Nicolas ^a,d   Cordonnier, Charlotte ^a,e   Devos, David ^a,f,g   Defebvre, Luc ^a,g   Moreau, Caroline ^a,g   Capparos Lefebvre, Dominique ^a,h   Pasquier, Florence ^a,b   Leys, Didier ^a,e   Maurage, Claude Alain ^a,c   Bordet, Regis ^a,f  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Memory Clinic   (Belgium)

^c Pathology Department   (Belgium)

^d Imaging Platform Research Pole   (United States)

^e Stroke Department   (United States)

^f Pharmacology Department   (United Kingdom)

^g LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^h CENTRE HOSPITALIER   (France)

Author keywords

Atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Cortical cerebellar microbleeds; Cortical cerebellar microinfarcts; Neurodegenerative diseases; Postmortem 7.0 tesla magnetic resonance imaging; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL CEREBELLAR MICROBLEED; CORTICAL CEREBELLAR MICROINFARCT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; AUTOPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE;

EID: 84923072127     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: 14219786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000371488     Document Type: Article

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