Objective: Deep small basal ganglia infarction (DSBI) cannot be clearly classified as either lacune or striatocapsular infarction by their sizes only. We tried to elucidate clinical and other properties of DSBI to und...
Background and Purpose -The shape and exact size of lacunar infarcts have been investigated only postmortem. Recent imaging techniques based on triangulation and connectivity can now be used for 3D segmentation of cer...
Objective: We report a clinical description of pure sensory stroke based on da ta collected from a prospective acute stroke registry. Methods: From 2500 acute stroke patients includedin a hospital-based prospective st...
In contrast to earlier observations, recent studies have demonstrated that sup ratentorial lacunar infarcts in the white matter may cause mild neuropsychologic al impairments. The origin of these cognitive disturbance...
Background and Purpose - White matter hyperintensities (W- MHs) on T2- weighted MRI are common in stroke patients and healthy elderly individuals. The detailed anatomical distribution of these lesions in stroke patien...