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Title | Radiologic changes of the aging brain and skull |
Creator/Author | LeMay, M. |
Publication Date | 1984 Aug 01 |
OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 6581559 |
Other Number(s) | CODEN: AAJRD |
Resource Type | Journal Article |
Resource Relation | AJR, Am. J. Roentgenol. ; Vol/Issue: 143:2 |
Research Org | Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
Subject | 550602 -- Medicine-- External Radiation in Diagnostics-- (1980-) ;550800 -- Morphology; ;BRAIN-- COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY-- REVIEWS;MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES-- AGE DEPENDENCE;SKULL-- COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENTS |
Related Subject | BODY;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 Publication | United States |
Language | English |
Format | Pages: 383-389 |
System Entry Date | 2001 May 13 |
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