RT Book, Section
A1 Ropper, Allan H.
A1 Samuels, Martin A.
A1 Klein, Joshua P.
A1 Prasad, Sashank
SR Print(0)
ID 1180565126
T1 Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 11e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071842617
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180565126
RD 2024/04/24
AB Among  all  the  neurologic  diseases  of  adult  life,  stroke  ranks  first  in  frequency  and  importance.  The  common  mode  of  expression  of  stroke  is  a  relatively  sudden  occurrence  of  a  focal  neurologic  deficit.  Strokes  are  broadly  categorized  as  ischemic  or  hemorrhagic.  Ischemic  stroke  is  due  to  occlusion  of  a  cerebral  blood  vessel  and  causes  cerebral  infarction.  Knowledge  of  the  stroke  syndromes,  the  signs  and  symptoms  that  correspond  to  the  region  of  brain  that  is  supplied  by  each  vessel,  allows  a  degree  of  precision  in  determining  the  particular  vessel  that  is  occluded  and  from  the  temporal  evolution  of  the  syndrome,  the  underlying  cause  of  vascular  occlusion  can  be  deduced.