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internal medicine
neurology
Stroke
Prevalence
Clinical features
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis
Investigations
CT or MRI of the head
b
Why?
Clinical features alone cannot safely diagnose or exclude an ischaemic stroke from a haemorrhagic one.
b
Note:
Clinicians agree moderately about involvement of middle cerebral artery territory in acute ischaemic stroke.
b
Expiry date: October 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides
Author
CM Ball
Reviewer
G Donnan
CAT Writers
CJ Wotton , N Shenker , CM Ball