Binswanger disease

• atherosclerosis of penetrating vessels
• older pts (>60) w/ HTN

• periventricular + deep white matter lesions
  • a/w BG infarcts, atrophy

• difficult to correlate CT with functional impairment

• demyelinating disease
• white-matter disease

© 2002, C.E. Kahn, Jr.
2002-04-18