Tsai YH, Chen YH, Chao TC, Lin LF, Chang ST. New type of lacunar stroke presenting in brain perfusion images: A case report. World J Neurol 2024; 10(1): 98672 [DOI: 10.5316/wjn.v10.i1.98672]
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This case is an extensively worked-up and well-written report. Best regards to the team. Stroke is not a clear-cut biophysics in neurology, with challenges in the clinical-radiological correlation encountered so often in clinical practice. As in this case, the work-up in SPECT could not convincingly determine theexact biomechanism of the clinical phenomena. However, it opened up information for future scopes of research into lacunar strokes. DSA, functional MRI, and Perfusion mismatch studies can also help in this type of situations. In contrast, the treatment is fairly less complicated in lacunar stroke.
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