Subcortical Stroke

This is an excellent book and deals with areas which are often poorly covered in other textbooks on stroke.

• PART I - HISTORY AND CLASSIFICATION ; 1. The history of lacunes ; 2. Commentary on subcortical strokes ; 3. Classification of subcortical infarcts ; PART II - PATHOLOGY AND NEUROCHEMISTRY OF SUBCORTICAL STROKES ; 4. Pathology of lacunar infarction ; 5. Leukoaraiosis ; 6. Molecular mechanisms of subcortical versus cortical infarction ; PART III - RISK FACTORS AND GENETIC ASPECTS ; 7. Risk factors for lacunar infarction ; 8. Genetic susceptibility and lacunar stroke ; 9. Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy ; PART IV - INVESTIGATING SUBCORTICAL STROKE ; 10. MRI and other neuroimaging modalities for subcortical stroke ; 11. Carotid angiography in patients with subcortical ischaemia ; 12. Electroencephalography in patients with small deep infarcts ; PART V - CONTROVERSIES AND CLINICAL SYNDROMES ; 13. About lacunes ; 14. Lacunar syndromes - are they still worth diagnosing? ; 15. The capsular warning syndrome and lacunar transient ischaemic attacks ; 16. Hyperacute diagnosis of subcortical infarction ; 17. Striatocapsular infarcts ; 18. Caudate infarcts ; 19. Anterior choroidal artery territory infarction ; 20. Internal watershed infarction ; 21. Thalamic infarcts ; 22. Acute infarcts in the white matter medullary artery territory of the centrum ovale ; 23. Prognosis of patients with lacunar infarction syndromes ; PART VI - THERAPY ; 24. Therapy for lacunar and subcortical stroke ; PART VII - SUBCORTICAL HAEMORRHAGE ; 25. MRI changes as a risk factor for intracerebral haemorrhage ; 26. Subcortical haemorrhages