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A case of granulomatous angiitis of the central nervous system associated with amyloid angiopathy

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The brain of a 69-year-old man exhibited extensive granulomatous inflammation in the walls of arteries in the leptomeninges, associated with amyloid deposition in the media of the involved arteries. The extracranial arteries exhibited neither granulomatous inflammation nor amyloid deposition in their walls.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Kansai Medical University, 570, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan

    M. Shintaku, K. Osawa, J. Toki & R. Maeda

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Kansai Medical University, 570, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan

    T. Nishiyama

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Shintaku, M., Osawa, K., Toki, J. et al. A case of granulomatous angiitis of the central nervous system associated with amyloid angiopathy. Acta Neuropathol 70, 340–342 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00686094

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