..., quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Leukoaraiosis White matter lesions Aetiology Carotid stenosis Atheroma...

...Joanna M. Wardlaw; Fergus N. Doubal; Elizabeth Eadie; Francesca Chappell; Kirsten Shuler; Vera Cvoro Atheromatous middle cerebral artery (MCA) stenosis could cause lacunar stroke by occluding lenticulostriate artery origins, but atheroma is common, and previous studies lacked suitable controls. We...

... or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Atheroma Magnetic resonance imaging Computed tomography Positron emission tomography...

... into the complex biology of arterial atheroma and awareness of the etiologic peculiarities of advanced complicated plaques may serve as a basis for identifying high-risk subjects and for novel vascular prevention strategies with focus on plaque stabilization and antithrombotic/anticoagulant measures...

... atheroma (i.e. 10 of 12 cases had possible embolic sources). The majority of lesions appeared to lie in arterial borderzones. The combined data suggest that SCOIs are pathologically and pathogenetically heterogeneous, and therefore that the term ‘lacune’ is inappropriate because this implies intrinsic...