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Title Radiologic changes of the aging brain and skull
Creator/Author LeMay, M.
Publication Date1984 Aug 01
OSTI IdentifierOSTI ID: 6581559
Other Number(s)CODEN: AAJRD
Resource TypeJournal Article
Resource RelationAJR, Am. J. Roentgenol. ; Vol/Issue: 143:2
Research OrgHarvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Subject550602 -- Medicine-- External Radiation in Diagnostics-- (1980-) ;550800 -- Morphology; ;BRAIN-- COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY-- REVIEWS;MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES-- AGE DEPENDENCE;SKULL-- COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENTS
Related SubjectBODY;CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES;DOCUMENT TYPES;NERVOUS SYSTEM;ORGANS;SKELETON;TOMOGRAPHY
Description/Abstract Computed tomographic (CT) studies during life reveal the involutionary changes in the brain found in postmortem studies.^Beginning about the fourth decade, gradual widening of the third ventricle, sylvian and interhemispheric fissures, superficial sulci, and basal cisterns occurs.^Enlargement of the lateral ventricles is most striking after the sixth decade of life.^Regression of the brain with aging is a normal process.^There is marked individual variation in the degree of involutional changes; not all lives are identical, and the longer the life span the less predictable one would expect the involutionary changes to be.
Country of PublicationUnited States
LanguageEnglish
FormatPages: 383-389
System Entry Date2001 May 13

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