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. 2022 Dec 15;22:486. doi: 10.1186/s12883-022-03025-1

Table 2.

Summary of neuroimaging features

Categories Items Data
Features of White matter lesions Periventricular white matter lesions (%) 29/29 (100%)
Subcortical and deep white matter lesions- frontal (%) 28/29 (96.6%)
Subcortical and deep white matter lesions- parietal (%) 21/29 (72.4%)
Subcortical and deep white matter lesions- occipital (%) 19/29 (65.5%)
Subcortical and deep white matter lesions- temporal (%) 13/29 (44.8%)
Internal capsule (%) 11/29 (37.9%)
External capsule (%) 21/29 (72.4%)
Corpus callosum (%) 27/29 (93.1%)
Infratentorial white matter (%) 13/29 (44.8%)
Corticomedullary junction DWI high intensity (%) 27/31a (87.1%)
Frontal and external capsule DWI high intensity (%) 11/31 (35.5%)
Grey matter lesion (%) 5/29 (17.2%)
Gd Enhancement (%) 0/10 (0%)
Visual rating scale GCA (0–3, median) 1
O’Donavan scale (0–3, median) 2
Periventricular white matter (0–6, x¯±s) 5.1 ± 1.8
Deep white matter (0–24, x¯±s) 16.1 ± 7.2
Basal ganglia white matter (0–30, x¯±s) 1.5 ± 2.2
Infratentorial white matter (0–24, x¯±s) 1.8 ± 2.2
White matter total score (0–84, x¯±s) 24.4 ± 11.3

Abbreviations: DWI Diffusion weighted imaging, GCA General cortical atrophy

a29 patients had intact MRI sequences and 2 patients only had DWI