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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)
| 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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Typical imaging findings in normal pressure hydrocephalus versus brain atrophy.[1]
Normal pressure hydrocephalus versus atrophy, NPH.jpg Normal pressure hydrocephalus versus atrophy, CA.jpg
Normal pressure hydrocephalus Brain atrophy
Preferable projection Coronal plane at the level of the posterior commissure of the brain.
Modality in this example CT MRI
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)
Callosal angle (blue V) Acute angle Obtuse angle
Most likely cause of leucoaraiosis (periventricular signal alterations, blue arrows) Transependymal cerebrospinal fluid diapedesis Vascular encephalopathy, in this case suggested by unilateral occurrence