TY - JOUR T1 - Binswanger's disease: a cause of dementia in the elderly. A1 - Rousseau,P, PY - 1988/10/1/pubmed PY - 1988/10/1/medline PY - 1988/10/1/entrez SP - 1329 EP - 30 JF - Southern medical journal JO - South Med J VL - 81 IS - 10 N2 - Evaluation of dementia has expanded as our attention to the aged and their maladies has increased. Alzheimer's disease continues to occupy the number one position as a cause of dementia, but vascular dementia also assumes great importance as one of the preventable causes of mental deterioration. Binswanger's disease, a type of vascular or multi-infarct dementia, will be seen more as our diagnostic technologies improve. An appropriate clinical picture combined with normal laboratory values and a CT brain scan with white matter lucencies and frequent basal ganglia infarcts confirm the diagnosis of Binswanger's. Treatment is symptomatic, with prevention of further infarcts. SN - 0038-4348 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/3175742/Binswanger's_disease:_a_cause_of_dementia_in_the_elderly_ L2 - http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=linkout&SEARCH=3175742.ui DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -