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Dementias with Associated ‘Brain Swelling’

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In addition to volume loss and signal change, structural MRI allows an assessment of ‘brain swelling’ – we use this here as an umbrella term to cover a range of conditions with apparent increases in volume (or pressure) of a part of the brain or a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) compartment – the brain may not be literally ‘swollen’ in all of these.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Image Analysis Center (IAC), VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frederik Barkhof (Professor of Neuroradiology)

  2. Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom

    Nick C. Fox (Professor of Neurology)

  3. VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Nick C. Fox (Professor of Neurology)

  4. Faculty of Medicine Department of Medical Imaging Alameda do Professor Hernâni Monteiro, University of Porto, 4200-319, Porto, Portugal

    António J. Bastos-Leite (Assistant Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging)

  5. Department of Neurology and Alzheimer Center, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Philip Scheltens (Professor of Cognitive Neurology)

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Barkhof, F., Fox, N.C., Bastos-Leite, A.J., Scheltens, P. (2011). Dementias with Associated ‘Brain Swelling’. In: Neuroimaging in Dementia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00818-4_8

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