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Classification of stroke subtypes.
Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2009
Amarenco P, Bogousslavsky J, Caplan L R, Donnan G A, Hennerici M G
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This article reviews published stroke subtype classification systems and offers rules and a basis for a new way to subtype stroke patients. Stroke subtyping can have different purposes, e.g. describing patients' characteristics in a clinical trial, grouping patients in an epidemiological study, careful phenotyping of patients in a genetic study, and classifying patients for therapeutic decision-making in daily...
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