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Features on Initial CT Scan of Infarcts with a Cardiac Source of Embolism in the NINDS Stroke Data Bank Stroke 23:1748-1751, Kittner,S.J.,et al, 1992 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Patients in the high-risk group were significantly more likely(p<0.001)to have infarcts involving one half lobe or larger or infarcts involving both superficial and deep structures than patients in the medium-or low-risk groups.In contrast,deep small infarcts had a negative association(p=0.004) with the presence of a cardiac source of embolism.There was no significant trend across risk groups in the percent with hemorrhagic infarction, regardless of whether patients with anticoagulant use at the time of stroke were excluded.Although some features of the initial computed tomogram had highly significant associations with the presence of a cardiac source of embolism,the predictive value of these features for an embolic source was low.

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