At least 20 different lacunar syndromes have been described and can be recognized by
characteristic clinical features. Almost all occur in patients with hypertension. Small lacunes are …

In 47 cases of verified ruptured saccular aneurysm, we investigated the relationship of the
amount and distribution of subarachnoid blood detected by computerized tomography to the …

THE term hydrocephalus refers to distention of the cerebral ventricles, usually as the result
of obstruction somewhere along the pathway of the cerebrospinal-fluid circulation. Occult …

• In ten patients, 11 infarcts involving mainly the internal capsule have been examined
pathologically. Serial sections of the involved basal ganglia were studied in ten infarcts and only a …

The types of miliary cerebral aneurysms associated with hypertension were studied, using
serial sections of blocks of brain tissue from hypertensive patients with a history of cerebral …

Vasoconstriction is not recognized as a cause of cerebrovascular disease except in the
vasospasm seen following subarachnoid hemorrhage and possibly in migraine. However, we …

… Fisher, 15 in a survey of strokes, referred to the role of hypertension and atherosclerosis
in the … Fisher in 1959 presented a summary of the data to be reported in the present paper. …

This paper records some neuro-ophthalmological observations made on the Stroke Service
of the Massachusetts General Hospital. For the most part they are not mentioned in …

ALTHOUGH physicians have long suspected that certain neuropathies occurring in association
with diabetes mellitus were" vascular" in origin, pathological evidence to substantiate …

Sixteen cases of spontaneous dissection of the cervical internal carotid artery (6 verified) are
described. The mean age was 45 years. The clinical picture varied from simply headache …