Cerebral Small Artery Disease (Advances in Neurology): v.62 - Hardcover

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This comprehensive and user-friendly reference is a practical aid to the clinical and radiological diagnosis of one of the major subtypes of stroke - small deep brain infarcts (lacunes) caused by disease of small cerebral arteries. The book will enable the reader to determine the site of such an infarct on the basis of clinical findings, correlate lesions seen on imaging scans with clinical data, and identify the cause of the underlying arterial disease. Coverage includes complete information on the anatomy and pathology of small cerebral arteries, the CT and MRI appearances of infarcts, and the clinical syndromes caused by lacunar infarcts at various sites. A unique series of detailed diagrams of small arterial vascular territories in axial, coronal, and safittal planes will be an invaluable aid in localizing lesions on scans. The book also includes a review of classic French literature on lacunes than has not been previously published in English.

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