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It is the intention of this brief paper to discuss the major clinical problems facing the neurologist in the management of patients suffering from celebral infarction; to indicate the questions that have to be asked in each case, and to suggest where the C.A.T. scan is and can be helpful.
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Harrison, M.J.G. (1977). The Use of C.A.T. in Cerebral Infarction. In: du Boulay, G., Moseley, I.F. (eds) The First European Seminar on Computerised Axial Tomography in Clinical Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66594-3_33
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