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  • Title: [2 cases of Binswanger's disease not associated with arterial hypertension: clinical-instrumental and neuropsychological evaluation].
    Author: Finali G, Piccirilli M, Piccinin GL, Stefano E, Tilia G, Amabile GA, Morocutti C.
    Journal: Riv Neurol; 1988; 58(4):164-74. PubMed ID: 3057588.
    Abstract:
    Two cases of subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy (Binswanger's disease) are reported. The two patients lacked a clinical history of hypertension, relevant pathogenetic factor in the development of the small and medium size cerebral arteries atherosclerosis, which is the main pathologic finding of the disease. The two subjects clinically showed a marked intellectual deterioration, together with mood depression and focal neurological signs, that were an expression of the multifocal neurologic involvement. In both cases CT scans evidentiated a mainly periventricular leucoencephalopathy associated, in the first patient, with small multiple ischemic lesions and, in the second, with a unique hypodense area in the centrum semiovale. A review of the literature on the subjects is proposed, together with an attempt of pathogenetic interpretation of our two cases.
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