Parkinson's syndrome: cranial computed-tomography findings. Their dependence on sex and age.

Abstract

Cranial Computed Tomography (CCT) findings in 123 patients suffering from Parkinson's syndrome were compared with a sex- and age-matched normal control group. Signs of supratentorial atrophy--cortical and subcortical--were more significantly marked in the Parkinson group. In both groups, signs of atrophy were more prevalent in men than in women. Parkinsonian women also more frequently showed limited features, such as lacunar lesions, around the lateral ventricles. Moreover, in these patients atrophy was marked in the frontal cortex.