Female, 70 years old, with chronic dizziness and vertigo. No restricted diffusion is seen. Numerous small foci of T2/FLAIR hyperintensity are seen scattered through the cerebral hemispheres and brainstem. No edema or mass effect is detected. No findings to suggest acute intracranial hemorrhage or any abnormal extra-axial fluid are observed. The ventricles are normal in size and morphology. The right maxillary sinus and right ethmoid air cells are opacified.
1.No definite acute intracranial abnormality is seen.2.Scattered foci of signal abnormality are nonspecific but statistically most likely represent chronic microvascular ischemia.