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Stroke and Its Imaging Evaluation

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Stroke, defined as the sudden onset of persistent neurologic deficit, is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the USA. It is the fourth leading cause of death. Ischemic infarction is by far the most common etiology comprising 88% of stroke. Intracranial hemorrhage makes up an additional 10–15%, with less common etiologies accounting for the remainder. Mortality rates vary with etiology, with a 38 and 8–12% 30-day mortality seen in hemorrhagic and ischemic strokes, respectively.

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  1. Department of Radiology, UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMass Medical School, 55 Lake Ave North, Worcester, MA, 01655, USA

    Sathish Kumar Dundamadappa MBBS

  2. Radiologist, Greensboro Radiology, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Melanie Ehinger

  3. Department of Radiology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA, USA

    Andrew Chen

  4. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Mohammad Mansouri MD, MPH

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Dundamadappa, S.K., Ehinger, M., Chen, A., Mansouri, M. (2018). Stroke and Its Imaging Evaluation. In: Singh, A. (eds) Emergency Radiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65397-6_18

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