Some patients with an acute large-vessel ischemic stroke who already show a large-core infarct at early imaging can still benefit from thrombectomy, especially if the procedure successfully restores ...

The use of thrombectomy in patients with acute stroke and a large infarct of unrestricted size has not been well studied. We assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients with proximal cerebral vessel occlusion ...

A 68 year-old woman developed the abrupt onset of double vision and slurred speech. Shortly afterward, she became quadriplegic and lapsed into a coma. Pontine and Midbrain Infarction: Flair axial MRI ...