Microbleed and microinfarct detection in amyloid angiopathy: A high-resolution MRI-histopathology study

Brain

Volumn 139, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3151-3162

  Van Veluw, Susanne J ^a,b   Charidimou, Andreas ^a   Van Der Kouwe, Andre J ^a   Lauer, Arne ^a   Reijmer, Yael D ^a   Costantino, Isabel ^a   Gurol, M Edip ^a   Biessels, Geert Jan ^b   Frosch, Matthew P ^a   Viswanathan, Anand ^a   Greenberg, Steven M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Histology; Microbleeds; Microinfarcts; Post mortem MRI; Small vessel disease

Indexed keywords

IRON;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN MICROINFARCTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RESOLUTION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; AUTOPSY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CEREBRAL AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 85013831831     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww229     Document Type: Article

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