Lacunar stroke (small vessel ... the CT scan is imperative during the rapid work-up of the patient with acute stroke. The non-contrast brain CT must be completed to rule out hemorrhage as ...

Headache is infrequent in acute lacunar infarction, but it might nevertheless have important clinical implications. Arboix et al. investigated whether the site of infarct affects the incidence of ...

Although short-term dual antiplatelet therapy may eventually prove to benefit specific populations with very high stroke risk, the SPS3 trial definitively establishes that lacunar stroke alone is ...

A 68-year-old man with an acute lacunar cerebral infarct of the left lenticular nucleus and right-sided dysarthria and facial palsy showed, besides alcohol-related cerebral atrophy, a cystic ...