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Periventricular white matter hyperintensities

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0030891


Areas of brighter than expected signal on magnetic resonance imaging emanating from the cerebral white matter that surrounds the cerebral ventricles. [ PMID:15576652 ]

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See also defintion for "Deep cerebral white matter hyperintensities". These two entities are in contra-distinction to each other.

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Areas of brighter than expected signal on magnetic resonance imaging emanating from the cerebral white matter that surrounds the cerebral ventricles.