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Severity of leukoaraiosis determines clinical phenotype after brain infarction.
Neurology - 5 Jul 2011
Arsava E M, Bayrlee A, Vangel M, Rost N S, Rosand J, Furie K L, Sorensen A G, Ay H
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the extent of leukoaraiosis, a composite marker of baseline brain integrity, differed between patients with TIA with diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) evidence of infarction (transient symptoms with infarction [TSI]) and patients with ischemic stroke. METHODS: Leukoaraiosis volume on MRI was quantified in a consecutive series of 153 TSI and 354 ischemic stroke patients with...
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