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Carlo Loeb, MD
Department of Neurology University of Genova Genova, Italy

Arch Neurol. 1989;46(8):839-840.

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To the Editor.

—The article by Aharon-Peretz and coworkers¹ in the July 1988 issue of the ARCHIVES, comparing the ventricular size and leuko-araiosis in multi-infarct and degenerative dementias, is of utmost interest to me.

I wonder what kind of modification of the method used by Albert et al² has been made. I cannot find any explanation of such low index values for multiinfarct dementia, with respect to ours.³ Considering the modifications of the method, an additional group of ageand sex-matched controls would have been more suitable for the purpose.

However, the crucial point concerning this study refers, in my opinion, to 4 of 31 patients suffering from multiinfarct dementia, with a negative computed tomographic scan.

O'Brien⁴ rightly pointed out that Hachinski's score divides patients into two subgroups: a large-infarct group and everything else. The modified ischemic score⁵ lends support to the diagnosis of large, and even . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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