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Prevalence and risk factors of cerebral microbleeds: the Rotterdam Scan Study.
Neurology - 1 Apr 2008
Vernooij M W, van der Lugt A, Ikram M A, Wielopolski P A, Niessen W J, Hofman A, Krestin G P, Breteler M M B
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BACKGROUND: Cerebral microbleeds are focal deposits of hemosiderin that can be visualized with MRI. Little is known on their prevalence in the general population and on their etiology. It has been suggested that, in analogy to spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage, the etiology of microbleeds differs according to their location in the brain, with lobar microbleeds being caused by cerebral amyloid angiopathy and...
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