RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Clinical diagnosis of cerebral amyloid angiopathy: Validation of the Boston Criteria
JF Neurology
JO Neurology
FD Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
SP 537
OP 539
DO 10.1212/WNL.56.4.537
VO 56
IS 4
A1 Knudsen, Katherine A.
A1 Rosand, Jonathan
A1 Karluk, Diane
A1 Greenberg, Steven M.
YR 2001
UL http://n.neurology.org/content/56/4/537.abstract
AB The authors performed clinical–pathologic correlation to assess the validity of the Boston diagnostic criteria for cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Thirteen subjects were diagnosed clinically with probable CAA from among 39 patients with available pathologic tissue in a prospective cohort of subjects aged ≥55 years with primary lobar hemorrhage. All 13 individuals were confirmed neuropathologically as having CAA. This small pathologic series indicates that the diagnosis of probable CAA can be made during life with high accuracy.