Chronic hypertensive encephalopathy

Case contributed by Frank Gaillard
Diagnosis almost certain

Patient Data

Age: 50 years
Gender: Male

MRI brain

mri

Multiple punctate regions of  signal drop out and blooming best seen on gradient echo imaging, predominately of the basal ganglia and cerebellum. 

CT demonstrates no evidence of calcification. 

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