The Relationship of Cerebral Vessel Pathology to Brain Microinfarcts

Brain Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 77-85

  Arvanitakis, Zoe ^a,b   Capuano, Ana W ^a,b   Leurgans, Sue E ^a,b   Buchman, Aron S ^a,b   Bennett, David A ^a,b   Schneider, Julie A ^a,b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

atherosclerosis; brain; cerebrovascular disease; epidemiology; infarction; pathology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIOLOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN MICROINFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTERIOLE; BRAIN ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOLES; ARTERIOLOSCLEROSIS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84963808266     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: 17503639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bpa.12365     Document Type: Article

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