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However, how TBI and aging may interact to promote the development of CMBs is not well established. In order to test the hypothesis that an mTBI exacerbates the development of CMBs in the elderly, we compared the number and cerebral distribution of CMBs and assessed them by analysing susceptibility weighted (SW) MRI in young (25 \u00b1 10 years old, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 18) and elder (72 \u00b1 7 years old, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 17) patients after an mTBI and in age-matched healthy subjects (young: 25 \u00b1 6 years old, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 20; aged: 68 \u00b1 5 years old, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 23). We found significantly more CMBs in elder patients after an mTBI compared with young patients; however, we did not observe a significant difference in the number of cerebral microhemorrhages between aged and aged patients with mTBI. The majority of CMBs were found supratentorially (lobar and basal ganglion). The lobar distribution of supratentorial CMBs showed that aging enhances the formation of parietal and occipital CMBs after mTBIs. 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