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Abstract
Accumulations of extracellularly deposited AMYLOID FIBRILS within tissues.
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15 entry terms
- Amyloid Deposits
- Amyloid Plaques
- Plaque, Amyloid
- Plaques, Amyloid
- Amyloid Deposit
- Deposit, Amyloid
- Deposits, Amyloid
- Neuritic Plaques
- Senile Plaques
- Neuritic Plaque
- Plaque, Neuritic
- Plaque, Senile
- Plaques, Neuritic
- Plaques, Senile
- Senile Plaque
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37 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, chemistry, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, ultrastructure, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coordinate with anatomical heading/ pathol for location of plaque deposit
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2011
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Amyloid Plaque. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D058225. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D058225
- Amyloid Plaque. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid
- Amyloid Plaque. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6740853