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acute ischemic stroke

E-Brain
Virtual interactive case report July: Ischemic stroke caused by aortic and carotid dissection

July 21, 2017

by Antonella Macerollo Dear Readers, An interesting interactive case has been published in eBrain this month. It has been written by the neurology, radiology and neurosurgery teams from Belgrade, Serbia. Please, find below the abstract. To see the full… Continue Reading
Paper of the Month
Paper of the month: Untreated cerebral cavernous malformations and risk of intracranial hemorrhage

March 1, 2016

For March 2016 we have selected: Horne MA, Flemming KD, Su I-C, et al., and the Cerebral Cavernous Malformation Individual Patients Data Meta-analysis Collaborators. Clinical course of untreated cerebral cavernous malformations: a meta-analysis of individual patient data. Lancet Neurol 2016;15:166-173. The incidental finding of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCMs) in brain MRIs is relatively common (1/650 neurologically asymptomatic people, a prevalence second only to cerebral aneurysm).