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What entities constitute the vascular dementias?
• Large vessel disease (multiple small infarcts with cortical and subcortical involvement)
• Small vessel disease
• Strategic infarcts (e.g., angular gyrus syndrome with agraphia, alexia, right/left disorientation, finger agnosia, apraxia, anomia, and verbal amnesia)
Sources
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