What Does A Lacunar Stroke Affect?

What Is It? Strokes can damage brain tissue in the outer part of the brain (the cortex) or deeper structures in the brain underneath the cortex. A stroke in a deep area of the brain (for example, a stroke in the thalamus, the basal ganglia or pons) is called a lacunar stroke.

Ischemic Stroke - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, pathology

What are ischemic strokes? Ischemic strokes occur when there’s a blocked artery that reduces blood flow to the brain. Find …

The lenticulostriate vessels and lacunar infarcts

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LACUNAR INFARCT/STROKE

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