Multiple acute stroke syndrome

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OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency and etiologic significance of multiple acute ischemic lesions in stroke. BACKGROUND: Although patients may have more than one stroke during the course of their lives, acute ischemic stroke is usually thought of as a single event. Using diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), an MRI technique that detects ischemic injury within minutes after onset, we have often observed multiple...

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