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[[Scarlet_fever_1.2.jpg|thumb|"Slapped cheeks" and "white mustache" (circumoral pallor) typical of scarlet fever.]]
|+Typical imaging findings in normal pressure hydrocephalus versus brain atrophy.<ref name="Damasceno2015">{{cite journal | vauthors = Damasceno BP | title = Neuroimaging in normal pressure hydrocephalus | journal = Dementia & Neuropsychologia | volume = 9 | issue = 4 | pages = 350–355 | year = 2015 | pmid = 29213984 | pmc = 5619317 | doi = 10.1590/1980-57642015DN94000350 }}</ref>
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|align="center"|[[File:Normal pressure hydrocephalus versus atrophy, NPH.jpg|335px]]
|align="center"|[[File:Normal pressure hydrocephalus versus atrophy, CA.jpg|333px]]
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! Normal pressure hydrocephalus !! [[Brain atrophy]]
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| Preferable projection ||colspan=2| Coronal plane at the level of the posterior commissure of the brain.
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| Modality in this example || CT || MRI
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| CSF spaces over the convexity near the vertex (red ellipse) || Narrowed convexity ("tight convexity") as well as medial cisterns || Widened vertex (red arrow) and medial cisterns (green arrow)
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| Callosal angle (blue V) || Acute angle || Obtuse angle
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| Most likely cause of [[leucoaraiosis]] (periventricular signal alterations, blue arrows)
| Transependymal [[cerebrospinal fluid]] diapedesis
| Vascular encephalopathy, in this case suggested by unilateral occurrence
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