Bin·swan·ger dis·ease

(bin'zwang-ĕr),

one of the causes of vascular dementia, in which there are many infarcts and lacunae in the white matter, with relative sparing of the cortex and basal ganglia.

Synonym(s): Binswanger encephalopathy, encephalitis subcorticalis chronica, subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy

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Bins·wan·ger dis·ease

(bin'swahng-er di-zēz')

One of the causes of multiinfarct dementia, in which there are many infarcts and lacunae in the white matter, with relative sparing of the cortex and basal ganglia.

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Binswanger,

Otto Ludwig, German neurologist, 1852-1929.

Binswanger dementia - Synonym(s): Binswanger disease

Binswanger disease - one of the causes of multiinfarct dementia, in which there are many infarcts and lacunes in the white matter, with relative sparing of the cortex and basal ganglia. Synonym(s): Binswanger dementia; Binswanger encephalopathy; encephalitis subcorticalis chronica; subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy

Binswanger encephalopathy - Synonym(s): Binswanger disease

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The corpus callosum, a unique whitte-matter tract: anatomic features that may explain sparing in Binswanger disease and resistance to the flow of fluid masses.

Imaging characteristics of cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leucoencephalopathy (CADASIL)

Diagnosis on discharge was: primary stroke, repeated brain stroke with neurologic sequelae, cerebral lacunarism, Binswanger disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, chronic alcoholism or brain atrophy of unknown etiology, all cases with brain CT-scan image of brain atrophy.

Brain atrophy and melotherapy: clinico-imaging correlations

One of the patients, whose brain specimen was sent to rule out dementia, was found to have Binswanger disease. The overall autopsy rate for the period of the study was 20.14% (144/715).

Pathologists in a teaching institution assess the value of the autopsy

Pearce's barrister, Nadine Radford QC, told the court a doctor believed Pearce had Binswanger disease. It is thought the condition was triggered by a seizure or stroke he suffered in 1992, which had resulted in a severe personality change.

Bomber 'has brain disease'

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