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Few small subcorticol and periventricular non enhancing high signal foci within the frontal centrum semiovale bilaterally. nonspecific finding differential diagnosis would include mild chronic small vessel ischemic microangipathy or vasculitis? means
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Lesisn: Common finding. Micronangiopathic changes are essentially capillaries that have closed off. As people age this happens. People that have vasculitis, such a lupu, will get these changes earlier in life and more abundantly.
Answered 6/20/2019
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