Diagnostic classification of stroke, especially Lacunes.
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Diagnostic classification of stroke, especially Lacunes.
Evolution and Testing of the Lacunar Hypothesis" by Bamford and Warlow in this issue of Stroke reviews many important aspects of these unique pathologic vascular lesions. I concur with the authors' emphasis on the need to maintain homogeneity in the classification of stroke conditions, specifically lacunes. A stroke classification scheme would ideally be based on 1) risk factor profile such as ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.19.9.1071