Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus With Multiple Sulcus Enlargements but No Ventricular Enlargement Resembling Brain Atrophy Over a Long Period Before Diagnosis: A Case Report.

ABSTRACT

The most common imaging findings in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) are disproportionately enlarged subarachnoid space hydrocephalus, i.e., enlarged ventricles (Evans index >0.3), narrowing of the superior arcuate and median sulci, widening of the Sylvian fissure, and focal widening of the sulci of the brain. In the present study, we encountered an interesting case of a 73-year-old woman with iNPH with characteristic imaging findings of cerebral atrophy-like features and no prominent ventricular enlargement. Many cases might be difficult to diagnose as iNPH because of atypical imaging findings such as no prominent ventricular enlargement and so on. Even in cases with multiple atrophic sulcus openings without any prominent ventricular enlargement, the callosal angle and posterior commissure-level brain-ventricle ratio (BVR) could be helpful in the diagnosis, and bilateral opening of the occipitoparietal sulcus might be a key imaging finding.