MR and CT of lacunar infarcts.

@article{Brown1988MRAC,
  title={MR and CT of lacunar infarcts.},
  author={J. J. Brown and J.R. Hesselink and John Farr Rothrock},
  journal={AJR. American journal of roentgenology},
  year={1988},
  volume={151 2},
  pages={
          367-72
        }
}
Twenty-two patients with clinical signs and symptoms compatible with lacunar transient ischemic attack or stroke of varying chronicity were evaluated with MR imaging. CT was also performed in 21 of these patients. MR revealed small, deep cerebral lesions in locations appropriate to the clinical symptoms in 19 patients. Lacunar infarcts were imaged by CT in 11 patients; however, no lesions were identified on CT that were not detected with MR. Presumed lacunar infarcts were identified on MR… 
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