Skip to main content

Medical Subject Headings (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

Vasculitis, Central Nervous System  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Inflammation of blood vessels within the central nervous system. Primary vasculitis is usually caused by autoimmune or idiopathic factors, while secondary vasculitis is caused by existing disease process. Clinical manifestations are highly variable but include HEADACHE; SEIZURES; behavioral alterations; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; and BRAIN INFARCTION. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp856-61)

Entry terms

  • Angiitis, Central Nervous System
  • Central Nervous System Angiitis
  • Central Nervous System Vasculitis
  • CNS Vasculitis

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-XLNCJKLG-L

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 11/8/99, last modified 7/6/09