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The Impact of Computed Tomography on Acute Stroke Treatment

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Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Stroke

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Abstract

Computed tomography (CT) was the first modality to image the brain and its pathology in vivo. Before the invention of CT in the early 1970s, brain diseases were categorized according to their clinical phenotype. The term “stroke” originates from these old days of medicine, when brain hemorrhages could not be differentiated from ischemic brain diseases. It is unfortunate that we still use the term “stroke” for different diseases like subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), cerebral venous thrombosis, spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH), and focal brain ischemia, which should be distinguished even though each may present as “brain attack.”

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    Rüdiger von Kummer MD

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    Patrick D. Lyden MD

  2. Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, San Diego, CA

    Patrick D. Lyden MD

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von Kummer, R. (2005). The Impact of Computed Tomography on Acute Stroke Treatment. In: Lyden, P.D. (eds) Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Stroke. Current Clinical Neurology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-933-8:249

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