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Brain, Vol. 125, No. 4, 923-924, April 2002
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Book Review

STROKE SYNDROMES, 2ND EDN, and UNCOMMON CAUSES OF STROKE

Peter Rothwell

Department of Clinical Neurology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK

STROKE SYNDROMES, 2ND EDN, and UNCOMMON CAUSES OF STROKE
Edited by Julien Bogousslavsky and Louis Caplan.
2001. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Two volume boxed set, Price £240. Pp. 1075. ISBN 0-521-80258-X..

Stroke medicine can be straightforward, but is often complex and demanding. This is particularly true of diagnosis—whether clinical, pathological or aetiological. Cerebral infarction, for example, is much more complex than myocardial infarction. Acute coronary syndromes are almost invariably due to fissuring or rupture of a coronary artery plaque, with a limited number of possible clinical presentations, whereas stroke is an extremely heterogeneous syndrome with a multitude of clinical manifestations and underlying pathologies. Accurate clinical, anatomical and pathological diagnosis is essential to the appropriate management of stroke. This requires a detailed knowledge of neurovascular anatomy, pathology and the varied clinical presentations and consequences of stroke. Stroke . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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