White Matter Lesions Predominantly Located in Deep White Matter Represent Embolic Etiology Rather Than Small Vessel Disease.
Young Hee JungSeongbeom ParkNa Kyung LeeHyun Jeong HanHyemin JangHee Jin KimSang Won SeoDuk Lyul NaPublished in: Dementia and neurocognitive disorders (2013)
The dWMH-group with younger participants had fewer cardiovascular risk factors, showed more border-zone-distributions, and had a higher agitated saline test positivity rate than the dpWMH-group, indicating that corticomedullary or deep WMH-distribution with minimal periventricular WMH suggests embolic etiologies.